Legal Opinion
Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission v. Colburn
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 27, 1940No. 563PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stone
The question is of the right of respondents to recover consequential damages to their New Jersey land, due to interference with their access to the land and with their light, air and view caused by petitioner’s construction of a bridge abutment on adjacent land. The answer turns on the question whether the Compact of 1934 between New Jersey and Pennsylvania authorizing the construction of the bridge and its approaches, excluded the application to petitioner of a New Jersey statute without which respondents would enjoy no right of recovery under New Jersey law.
Petitioner, the Bridge…
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