International Railway Co. v. Davidson
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM AND CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. Review of a decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the action of the District Court in dismissing, for want of equity, a bill filed by the present petitioner to restrain the respondent collector of customs from putting into effect measures affecting the customs inspection .at the terminus of petitioner’s toll bridge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brandeis
The International Railway Company owns and operates two public toll-bridges across the Niagara River between the United States and Canada. One is at Niagara Falls, the other at Lewiston, a short distance below. Over each bridge the company operates regularly its passenger'.cars; and over each there is heavy passenger travel also in other vehicles and on foot. For more than twenty years prior to June, 1920, the Government had, at its own expense, maintained at the American end of these bridges customs inspectors, continuously' day and night, including Sundays and holidays. Then the Collector…
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