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LONG SAULT DEVELOPMENT CO. v. CALL

No. 49.

242 U.S. 272 (1916)

37 S.Ct. 79

61 L.Ed. 294

LONG SAULT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY v. CALL (AS SUCCESSOR OF KENNEDY), AS TREASURER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 11, 1916.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry W. Taft, with whom Mr. Francis Sims McGrath was on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Merton E. Lewis, with whom Mr. E.E. Woodbury, Attorney General of the State of New York, and Mr. C.T. Dawes were on the briefs, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.

This proceeding was commenced in the Supreme Court of New York by the Long Sault Development Company, hereinafter called the plaintiff, for the purpose of testing the constitutionality of an act of the legislature of that State, passed in 1907, to incorporate the plaintiff and to grant to it important rights in the bed of, and with respect to the use of the waters of, the St. Lawrence River. (Laws of 1907, c....

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