Legal Opinion
Turnpike Company v. The State
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 18, 1866PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
70 U.S. 210
18 L.Ed. 180
3 Wall. 210
TURNPIKE COMPANY
v.
THE STATE.
December Term, 1865
IN 1812 the State of Maryland incorporated a company to build a turnpike road between Baltimore and Washington. The company by its charter had power to take tolls and was bound to erect bridges and keep them and the road in good repair. In regard to its privileges generally, there was nothing special about it.
In 1831 the same State granted a charter to a railroad company to make a railroad between the same cities, the line of which ran near to and parallel with the track of the turnpike.
The turnpike company not…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Proprietors of the Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of the Warren BridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1837
- Turnpike Co. v. StateSupreme Court of the United States · 1865
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- Knoxville Water Co. v. KnoxvilleSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
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