Port Richmond & Bergen Point Ferry Co. v. Board of Chosen Freeholders
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF ERRORS AND, APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. The facts, which involve the power of a State, or a 'municipality acting under its authority, to establish rates of transportation on ferries plying between one of its ports and a port of another State, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF ERRORS AND, APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. The facts, which involve the power of a State, or a 'municipality acting under its authority, to establish rates of transportation on ferries plying between one of its ports and a port of another State, are stated in the opinion. A State cannot prescribe rates to be charged by a person or corporation operating an interstate ferry not in connection with a railroad, because a ferry across an interstate stream is an instrument of interstate commerce; the transportation of passengers, vehicles, horses and cattle from one State…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
The plaintiff in error, Port Richmond and Bergen Point Ferry Company, was incorporated in 1848 (c. 306) by special act of the legislature of New -York for the purpose of maintaining a ferry across the Kill von Kull from Port Richmond, Staten Island, New York, to Bergen Point, Hudson County, New Jersey. 1 This act prescribed rates of ferriage as did also the amendatory acts of 1857 (c. 692) and 1868 (c. 778).
The ferry is not. operated in connection with any railroad.
In July, 1905, the Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Hudson, New Jersey, passed two resolutions fixing the rates to be…
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