International Ry. Co. v. Davidson
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District District o! New York. Suit for injunction by the International Railway Company against George G. Davidson, individually and as Collector of Customs of the Port of Buffalo, and others. From a decree dismissing the bill for lack of equity (271 Fed. 313), plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree of the District- Court of the United States for the Western District of New York, dismissing the plaintiff’s bill for lack of equity. The international Railway Company owns and operates two public toll bridges across *154tíie Niagara river between the United States and Canada, upon each of which it also operates a line of passenger trolley cars. The government had always maintained customs inspectors at the American end of the bridges, both day and night and on Sundays and holidays. Congress, by the Act of February 7, 1920, c. 61, 41 Stat. 402,…
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