Hartford Bridge Co. v. Town of East-Hartford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery for an injunction against the defendants, restraining them from the further use of the ferry between the towns of Hartford and East-Hartford. The defendants, in their answer, stated certain matters in denial or avoidance of the claims of the plaintiffs.
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This was a bill in chancery for an injunction against the defendants, restraining them from the further use of the ferry between the towns of Hartford and East-Hartford. The defendants, in their answer, stated certain matters in denial or avoidance of the claims of the plaintiffs. The court, at an adjourned term, held at Hartford, on the 1st of May, 1843, appointed Ebenezer Learned and John Stewart, Esqrs., a committee to find and report the facts alleged in the bill and answer. After a full hearing of the parties, the committee made their report to an adjourned term of the court, held on the…
1Opinion of the CourtChurch, J.
Some of the questions involved in this case are of unusual importance, and have presented difficulties in their solution; and they have received our careful and deliberate attention. A majority of us, for the reasons which we shall suggest, are of opinion, that the facts appearing upon the report of the committee, are sufficient to sustain the plaintiffs’ bill.
We are not called upon now to enquire into the condition of ferries, as they have been treated here, from the origin of our colonial government—whether they were considered as burthens upon towns, and which the towns were under legal…
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