The Clinton Bridge
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Iowa. Gray filed a bill in equity in the court below against thé Chicago, Iowa, and Nebraska Railroad Company, to enjoin them from building a railroad bridge across the Mississippi River, at the town of Clinton, situate on its banks on the Iowa or western side, and extending to a point opposite on the eastern or Illinois side. Railroads in each State came to the termini of the bridge.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Iowa. Gray filed a bill in equity in the court below against thé Chicago, Iowa, and Nebraska Railroad Company, to enjoin them from building a railroad bridge across the Mississippi River, at the town of Clinton, situate on its banks on the Iowa or western side, and extending to a point opposite on the eastern or Illinois side. Railroads in each State came to the termini of the bridge. After setting out the interest which the complainant had in the free and unobstructed navigation of the river, and the serious danger and obstruction to the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
The first section of the act of Congress provides, “ that the bridge across the Mississippi River, erected by the Albany Bridge Company and the Chicago, Iowa, and Nebraska Railroad Company, under the authority of the States .of Iowa and Illinois, &c;, shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known as a post route.”
We cannot doubt, upon a perusal of the section, but that it was the intention of Congress to legalize the bridge as then constructed across the river, and that the words used carry out fully this intent. It is declared “ a lawful structure;” that is, the bridge as…
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