Hopkins v. Stockton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Fayette county. William Hopkins, commissioner and superintendent of the Cumberland Road in Pennsylvania, against William B. Stokes and Lucius W. Stockton, surviving partners with Richard C. Stockton, deceased, contractors for carrying the United States Mail on said road.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of Fayette county. William Hopkins, commissioner and superintendent of the Cumberland Road in Pennsylvania, against William B. Stokes and Lucius W. Stockton, surviving partners with Richard C. Stockton, deceased, contractors for carrying the United States Mail on said road. This was an action on the case, in which the plaintiff thus declared : “ L. W. Stockton, one of the surviving partners and carriers of the mail line of stages running on the Cumberland road in Pennsylvania, was summoned to answer William Hopkins, commissioner of said road, being duly appointed and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
A question has been raised in the present case, whether the Act of Assembly of this state, passed on the 13th of June 1836, requiring wagons, &c., carrying the United States mail, with passengers or goods, on the Cumberland road, to pay half toll, was not a violation of the compact previously made between the United States and this state, by virtue of the Act of Assembly passed on the 4th of April 1831, and the Act of Congress of the 3d of June 1832. The court below held that it was, and decided on that account, in addition to another…
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