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SUSQUEHANNA BOOM CO. v. W. BRANCH BOOM CO.

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110 U.S. 57 (1884)

3 S.Ct. 438

28 L.Ed. 69

SUSQUEHANNA BOOM COMPANY & Others, v. WEST BRANCH BOOM COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1884.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Seymour D. Ball for defendant in error, moving.

Mr. William A. Wallace for plaintiffs in error, opposing.

MR. CHIEF 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 the river. Its charter did not purport to confer upon it any exclusive rights to the use of the river above the boom...

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