SILLIMAN v. HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE CO.


66 U.S. 582 (____)

1 Black 582

SILLIMAN vs. HUDSON RIVER BRIDGE COMPANY. COLEMAN vs. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Beach, of New York, and Mr. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, for complainants.

Mr. Pruyn, of New York, for defendants.


Mr. Justice NELSON.

These were suits in equity, in which the bills were filed in October, 1856, to obtain a decree for an injunction perpetually restraining the defendant from erecting a bridge across the Hudson river, at Albany, authorized by an act of the Legislature of the State of New York, passed on the 9th day of April, 1856. The defendant answered both bills, to which general replications were filed and proofs taken, and the causes brought on for hearing, and...

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