Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was transferred to this court by an ordet of Mr. Justice Grier, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, under the following circumstances.
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This case was transferred to this court by an ordet of Mr. Justice Grier, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, under the following circumstances. On the 16th of August, 1849, at the coprt-room of. the Circuit Court of the United States, in the city of Philadelphia, before Mr. justice Grier, one of the judges of the Supreme Court Of the United States, Mr. Stanton appeared to move for an injunction in behalf of the State of Pennsylvania, at the instance of her Attorney-General, against the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company, and their agents, William Ottersan and George…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
announced that the court had passed the following interlocutory order.
The court having heard the counsel bn the part of the complainant, and also on the part of the respondents, on ,the motion for an injunction in this cause to remove the obstruction of the navigation of the Ohio River, as charged in the original, amended, and supplemental bills of the complainant, by means of the erection of the suspension bridge in said bills mentioned, and which said obstruction is denied in the answers put in thereto by the respondents; and on due deliberation being had thereon, *658and upon the pleadings and…
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- The State of Pennsylvania v. The Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company, William Ottersan, and George CroftSupreme Court of the United States · 1850