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- Title: Gilman v. Philadelphia
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1865
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
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There is no contest between the parties about the facts upon which they respectively rely. The complainants are citizens of other States, and own a valuable and productive wharf and dock property above the site of the contemplated bridge. The river is navigable there for vessels drawing from eighteen to twenty feet of water. Commerce has been carried on in all kinds of vessels for many years to and from the complainants' property. The bridge will not be more than thirty feet above the ordinary high-water surface of the river, and hence will prevent the passage of vessels having masts. This will largely reduce the income from the property, and render it less valuable.