Holyoke Water-Power Co. v. Connecticut River Co.

The Connecticut fiiver Company was incorporated in the year 1824, by tbe general assembly of the state of Connecticut, “for the purpose of improving the boat navigation of Connecticut river,” a navigable stream, and was empowered, among oilier things, to remove obstructions from the channels and bars of said river from and above the bridge at Hartford to Springfield; to lock the falls at Enfield on said river; to make channels to aid them; to construct a canal on either bank of said river near said falls, and to construct a darn or dams for tbe purpose of entering and leaving the locks,…