District of Columbia Commissioners v. Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SÜPKEME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The appellee in this court, as plaintiff in the court below, filed its bill in equity to restrain the appellants from interfering with the laying of its track in certain streets in the City of Washington. Judgment being rendered for plaintiff, defendants appealed to this court. The facts which make the cáse are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
This is an appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
The railroad company has constructed its road from Baltimore through the District of Columbia and through the city of Washington, to the Potomac River at Long Bridge, on which it crosses that river to the Virginia side. It has done this by virtue of several acts of Congress granting the necessary authority to do so. At the Washington end of the bridge it has purchased and now owns one of the squares of the city and part of another, numbered, in the division of the city into street, squares and lots; squares 238 and 267.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Potomac Steamboat Co. v. Upper Potomac Steamboat Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1884
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