Miller v. Mayor of New York
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES. POR THE SOUTHERN 'DISTRICT OP NEW YORK. Bill in equity to abate a nuisance. On the 16tb of April, 1867, the legislature of New York passed an act creating a corporation by the name of the New York Bridge Company, for the purpose, of constructing and maintaining a permanent bridge over the East River, between the cities of New York and Brooklyn.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES. POR THE SOUTHERN 'DISTRICT OP NEW YORK. Bill in equity to abate a nuisance. On the 16tb of April, 1867, the legislature of New York passed an act creating a corporation by the name of the New York Bridge Company, for the purpose, of constructing and maintaining a permanent bridge over the East River, between the cities of New York and Brooklyn. Laws of 1867, chapter 399. • The act, among other things, authorized the corporation to acquire and hold so much real estate as might be necessary for the site of the bridge, and of all piers,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
This suit was commenced in May, 1876, to restrain the erection of the suspension bridge, then under construction, over. East River, in the State of New York, between the cities of New York and Brooklyn, at the height of 135 feet above the river at high-water mark, which was .the proposed elevation of the structure. As the bridge has since been completed, if the plaintiff can make good his contention, and establish that when he filed his bill he was entitled to. the relief prayed, he may claim that the bridge shall be raised to a greater elevation, or be entirely abated. He is the lessee of…
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