City of Sault Ste. Marie v. International Transit Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT- OF MICHIGAN. The facts, which involve the right of the State, or a municipality acting under its authority, to establish ordinances regulating maintenance of ferries between its ports and one of a foreign government and the construction of the treaty of 1909 with Great Britain, are stated in the opinion. The ordinance is not invalid as in violation of the commerce clause of the Constitution.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT- OF MICHIGAN. The facts, which involve the right of the State, or a municipality acting under its authority, to establish ordinances regulating maintenance of ferries between its ports and one of a foreign government and the construction of the treaty of 1909 with Great Britain, are stated in the opinion. The ordinance is not invalid as in violation of the commerce clause of the Constitution. A ferry is in respect to the landing and not on the water. The point of departure is the seat, the- base, the home of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
This suit was brought' by the International Transit Company, a Canadian corporation, to restrain thé enforce-. ment of an ordinance adopted, in the year 1911, by the city of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The ordinance related to the maintaining of ferries from that city across the St. Mary’s river to the opposite shore in the Province of Ontario; and the complainant contended that, as applied to it, the ordinance was a violation of the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution and of article I of the treaty of January 11, 1909, 36 Stat. 2448, 2449, between the United States and Great Britain.…
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