Sullivan v. the Fulton Steam Boat Company

• Court: U.S. Supreme Court
• Citation: Sullivan v. the Fulton Steam Boat Company, 19 U.S. 450, 5 L.Ed. 302, 6 Wheat. 450 (1821)
• Decision Date: 08 March 1821
• Parties: SULLIVAN et al. v. THE FULTON STEAM BOAT COMPANY

19 U.S. 450

5 L.Ed. 302

6 Wheat. 450

SULLIVAN et al. v. THE FULTON STEAM BOAT COMPANY.

March 8, 1821

APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New-York.

This was a bill in equity, filed in the Court below, in which Sullivan, one of the plaintiffs, was described as a citizen of Massachusetts, and others of the plaintiffs, as citizens of Connecticut and Vermont, and the defendants were described as a corporate body incorporated by the legislature of the State of New-York, for the purpose of navigating, by steam boats, the waters of the East river, or Long Island Sound, ir said State. The object of the bill was to obtain an injunction to prevent the defendants from so exercising the privileges granted to them by the said act, and by an assignment from Livingston and Fulton of their rights under certain other acts of the legislature of New-York, as to obstruct the plaintiffs in the right claimed by them under the constitution and laws of the United States, and under a coasting license, of employing a certain steam boat belonging to the plaintiffs...