Company for Erecting & Supporting a Toll Bridge v. Connecticut River Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery, praying for an injunction against the defendants to desist from proceeding to erect locks and canals, or any other structure for the passage of boats and rafts, on the falls or rapids in Connecticut river, called Mad Tom and Surf bars.
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This was a bill in chancery, praying for an injunction against the defendants to desist from proceeding to erect locks and canals, or any other structure for the passage of boats and rafts, on the falls or rapids in Connecticut river, called Mad Tom and Surf bars. The cause was heard on the bill and answer, at Hartford, February term, 1828, before Hosmer, Ch. J. John Reynolds and his associates, inhabitants of the towns of Enfield and Sufiield, preferred a petition to- the General Assembly of this state, in October, 1798, praying for liberty to erect a toll bridge across Connecticut river,…
1Opinion of the Court
Hosmer, Ch. J.
The first enquiry in the case regards the title of the plaintiffs averred in their bill. As they were explicitly authorized, by their charter of incorporation, to erect locks and to collect toll, it is only necessary, in conducting this enquiry, to consider the objections made by the defendants.
In the first place, they say, that" the locks, by the original grant, were to be executed within six years from the rising of the General Assembly, in May, 1799 ; and that the prolongation of this period afterwards, had relation to the bridge only. This objection is manifestly without any…
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