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INTERNATIONAL RY. CO. v. DAVIDSON

No. 340.

257 U.S. 506 (1922)

42 S.Ct. 179

66 L.Ed. 341

INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY v. DAVIDSON, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS COLLECTOR OF THE PORT OF BUFFALO, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 30, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Basil Robillard for appellant and petitioner.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Ottinger, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. Harvey B. Cox were on the brief, for appellees and respondents.

Mr. John W. Beaumont, by leave of court, filed a brief as amicus curiae.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

The International Railway Company owns and operates two public toll-bridges across the Niagara River between the United States and Canada. One is at Niagara Falls, the other at Lewiston, a short distance below. Over each bridge the company operates regularly its passenger cars; and over each there is heavy passenger travel also in other vehicles and on foot. For more than twenty years prior to June, 1920, the...

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