Halfmoon Bridge Co. v. Canal Board

The plaintiff owned and operated a toll bridge, spanning the Mohawk river, at Crescent, N. Y., on a section of the river being canalized for the Barge canal. The canal board has attempted to appropriate a part of plaintiff’s lands at each end of the bridge, and this, with its constructions in the river, involves the destruction of the bridge. Plaintiff in this action seeks to enjoin the defendants from *601destroying the bridge except on condition that the state build a new bridge for plaintiff on the site of the old one. of suitable kind in the place of the one destroyed or to be destroyed. The…