Hannibal Bridge Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. The facts, which involve the construction of the provisions of the act of March 3,1899, relating to the removal of obstructions' from navigable waters of the United States, and the validity of proceedings taken, and orders made, thereunder in connection with plaintiff in error’s bridge óvér the Mississippi River at Hannibal, Missouri, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. The facts, which involve the construction of the provisions of the act of March 3,1899, relating to the removal of obstructions' from navigable waters of the United States, and the validity of proceedings taken, and orders made, thereunder in connection with plaintiff in error’s bridge óvér the Mississippi River at Hannibal, Missouri, are stated in the opinion. The special act of July 25, 1866, under which the bridge was erected, and which reserved to Congress the power to require changes in the structure,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This is a criminal Information against the Hannibal Bridge Company, the Wabash Railroad Company, and the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, under the eighteenth section of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act of Congress of March 3, 1899, c. 425, 30 Stat. 1121.
That section is as follows: "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…
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