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TOWN OF EAST HARTFORD v. HARTFORD BRIDGE CO.

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51 U.S. 511 (1851)

10 How. 511

13 L.Ed. 518

THE TOWN OF EAST HARTFORD, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. THE HARTFORD BRIDGE COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

January 15, 1851.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr. Chapman and Mr. Toucey, for the plaintiff in error, and by Mr. Parsons and Mr. Baldwin, for the defendant in error.

Mr. Justice WOODBURY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error, under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act, brought to reverse a judgment rendered by the Supreme Court of the State of Connecticut.

It is claimed by the plaintiff, that the clause in the Constitution of the United States against impairing the obligation of contracts was set up there in defence to certain proceedings which had...

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