Enfield Toll Bridge Co. v. Hartford & New-Haven Rail-Road
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a bill in chancery, brought to the superior court, at its term in January 1844, stating, that the General Assembly of this state, at its session in October 1798, incorporated the plaintiffs, and empowered them to erect a bridge across Connecticut river between the towns of Enfield and St field, and to collect of all persons passing over or using said bridge certain tolls ; [specifying them ;] which tolls the company were authorized to collect, for their own use and…
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This was a bill in chancery, brought to the superior court, at its term in January 1844, stating, that the General Assembly of this state, at its session in October 1798, incorporated the plaintiffs, and empowered them to erect a bridge across Connecticut river between the towns of Enfield and St field, and to collect of all persons passing over or using said bridge certain tolls ; [specifying them ;] which tolls the company were authorized to collect, for their own use and benefit, for the term of one hundred years, or until the expenditures of the company for the construction of the bridge…
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, Ch. J.
The plaintiffs were authorized, by the General Assembly, in the year 1708, to erect a bridge across Connecticut river, at Enfield, with the power to collect tolls, and an obligation to keep the same in repair for 100 years, with a specification of the subjects of toll. The charter further provided, that no person should have liberty to erect another bridge any where between the North line of Enfield and the South line of Windsor. This resolve has been somewhat modified, from time to time, and in 1839, this company were authorized to enlarge the same, or erect another bridge,…
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