Susquehanna Boom Co. v. West Branch Boom Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR. TO THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA.' Motion to dismiss a cause brought here from a State court by writ of error, on the ground that the federal question was not raised in the court below.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
delivered the opinion of the court.: The Susquehanna Boom Company was incorporated by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania on the 26th of March, 1846, and as early as 1849 erected, under its charter, a boom in the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, at Williamsport, for the .purpose of securing logs and other lumber floating, in tihe river. Its charter did not purport to confer upon it any ¿x-clusive rights to the use of the river above the boom for bringing logs down.
On the 26th of March, 1849, the West Branch Boom Company was incorporated to construct and maintain a boom (on the south…
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