Town of East Hartford v. HartFord Bridge Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
This was a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Errors for the State of Connecticut. The defendant in error filed its petition in the Superior Court, holden at Hartford, for an injunction restraining the town of East Hartford (plaintiff in error), its servants, agents, &c., from the'use of a certain ferry over the Connecticut River, and from receiving tolls, &c.
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This was a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Errors for the State of Connecticut. The defendant in error filed its petition in the Superior Court, holden at Hartford, for an injunction restraining the town of East Hartford (plaintiff in error), its servants, agents, &c., from the'use of a certain ferry over the Connecticut River, and from receiving tolls, &c. Upon the hearing of the cause on petition, answer, and the report of a committee appointed to inquire into the facts, the injunction was granted; and upon being carried to the Supreme Court of Errors, the decree of the court below…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodbury
This is a writ of error,, under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act, brought to reverse a judgment rendered by the Supreme Court of the State of Connecticut.
It is claimed by the plaintiff, that the clause.in the Constitution Of the United States against impairing the obligation of contracts was set up there in defence to certain proceedings which had been instituted against that corporation by virtue of rights derived from legislative acts of that State, which acts the plaintiff insisted had impaired the obligation of a contract existing in behalf of East Hartford.
It being manifest…
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