The Binghamton Bridge
Supreme Court of the United States
The legislature of New York was desirous in early times • to have turnpike communications from the Chenango River, in the interior of the State, as the river approaches the Pennsylvania line, to the Hudson River at and below Newburgh, on that stream.
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The legislature of New York was desirous in early times • to have turnpike communications from the Chenango River, in the interior of the State, as the river approaches the Pennsylvania line, to the Hudson River at and below Newburgh, on that stream. Roads from the one river to the other • by the routes contemplated had to cross the east branch of the Susquehanna, the east and west branches of the Delaware, and it was proposed also to make a bridge westward across the Chenango River itself. Accordingly, on the 6th of April, 1805, the legislature passed an act to establish a “ turnpike…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Davis
delivered the opinion of the court. †
The Constitution of the United States declares that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts; and the 25th section of the Judiciary Act provides, that the final judgment or decree of the highest court of a State,, in which a decision in a suit can he had, may be examined and reviewed in this court, if there was drawn in question in the suit the validity of a statute of the State, on the ground of its being repugnant to the Constitution of the United States, and the decision was in favor of its validity.
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