Lansing v. North River Steam-Boat Co.
New York Court of Chancery
THE bill stated, that the plaintiffs have caused tobe fitted with machinery, a vessel, called the Massachusetts, for the purpose of navigating Hudson river, and xwhich vessel is intended to be propelled by fire and steam, and to be employed in the conveyance of passengers and freight; and that they intend to construct other vessels efa similar kind, to be employed on the said river; that the defendants pretend to have acquired, in 1817, certain exclusive rights and…
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THE bill stated, that the plaintiffs have caused tobe fitted with machinery, a vessel, called the Massachusetts, for the purpose of navigating Hudson river, and xwhich vessel is intended to be propelled by fire and steam, and to be employed in the conveyance of passengers and freight; and that they intend to construct other vessels efa similar kind, to be employed on the said river; that the defendants pretend to have acquired, in 1817, certain exclusive rights and privileges to the navigation of Hudson river, with vessels propelled by fire and steam, derived from R. R. Livingston and R.…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
It appears from the bill, that the defendants claim and exercise the right or privilege of exclusively navigating the waters of Hudson river, with vessels propelled by fire and steam, and that they claim *165and assert that right under certain acts of the Legislature of this State. It is also a fact of public notoriety, and was assumed and conceded upon the argument of the motion, that the defendants, and those from whom they claim to have derived title, have been, ever since the year 1807, in the actual possession and enjoyment of such ex- " elusive right and privilege. It further…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Storm v. MannNew York Court of Chancery · 1819
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