Searight v. Stokes
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, and involved the right of the plaintiff in error, acting under the authority of the state of Pennsylvania,.to collect tolls from the stage-coaches; which carried the mail of the United States.
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This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, and involved the right of the plaintiff in error, acting under the authority of the state of Pennsylvania,.to collect tolls from the stage-coaches; which carried the mail of the United States. The circumstances under which the arose, were these:. On the 30th of April, 1802, and 3d of March, 1803, acts of Congress were passed, the effect of both of which taken together was, that three per cent, of the amount received for the sales of public land in Ohio, should be…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
delivered die opinion of the court.
The-question in this case is, whether the state of .Pennsylvania can lawfully impose a toll on carriages employed in transporting the ■ mail of the United States over that part of the Cumberland road which passes through the territory of that state?
*163The dispute has arisen from an act of the legislature of Pennsylvania, passed in 1836, wnereby wagons, carriages', stages, and other modes of conveyance, carrying the United States mail, with passengers or the goods of other persons, are charged with half the toll levied upon other vehicles of the like…
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