The Wheeling Bridge case : its significance in American law and technology / Elizabeth Brand Monroe.
1992
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Title
The Wheeling Bridge case : its significance in American law and technology / Elizabeth Brand Monroe.
Published
Boston : Northeastern University Press, [1992]
Copyright
©1992
Call Number
KF5541.W54 M66 1992
ISBN
155553130X (cloth) :
Description
xvi, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25281412
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-262) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Maps and Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt. I
Prologue
1Internal Improvements and the American Constitutional and Political Tradition
3
2Western Trade and Transportation: Technology Changes Direction
21
3Rivals along the River
30
Pt. II
Litigation
4"A Little Nuisance"
41
5Proving Injury
56
6"A Foot or Two Cannot Be the Measure of the Rights of States"
78
7Before the Supreme Court, 1851
101
8Exercising "A Broad and Undefinable Discretion"
115
9"Engaged in the Wheeling Wars in all Directions"
131
10Changing the Law but not the Facts, 1856
150
Pt. III
Resolution and Impact
11"Knotty Questions" and the Wheeling Bridge Case
163
Epilogue
177
Notes
179
Table of Cases
236
Bibliography
238
Index
263