President of the Monongahela Bridge Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR TIIE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR TIIE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. The facts are stated in the opinion. The court below-erred in refusing the offer of the Bridge Company to prove that the bridge was not an unreasonable obstruction to the navigation of the river, and that the changes in the bridge ordered by the Secretary of War were not necessary; and in also ruling that the proceedings before the Secretary of War were conclusive, and not subject to the examination of the courts. No citizen can be deprived of his property through such a mental impression of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This is a criminal information by the United States under § 18 of the River and Harbor Act of March 3d, 1899, against the President, Managers and Company of the Monongahela Bridge Company, a Pennsylvania corporation.
That section is as follows: “That whenever the Secretary of War shall have good reason, to believe that any railroad or other bridge now constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed, over any of the navigable waterways of the United States is an unreasonable obstruction to the free navigation of such waters on account of insufficient height, width of span, or otherwise, or…
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