New York, N. H. & H. R. v. Piscataqua Nav. Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This is a proceeding in admiralty, arising out of claims in behalf of sundry vessels on account of an ob-strucüon of a navigable channel by the falling of a draw in a bridge •of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Kailroad Company. The channel is the only communication between South Bay, so called, in Boston, and the harbor; and its obstruction prevents ingress and egress to and from South Bay, and, if unlawful, would undoubtedly constitute a public nuisance. The bridge and its draw were lawfully erected and maintained across the channel, and therefore they could not…
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