Talk:Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge

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Needs to be cleaned up. Much.

...Seriously, that is one imposing paragraph.

-Niccus

[edit] "Ex Post Facto"

The sidebar on this article summarizes the Court's finding that the new charter "did not constitute a violation of the constitutional prohibition on ex post facto laws." I find no evidence that the ex-post-facto verbiage was in dispute, and I don't believe the case deals with an ex-post-facto issue. Ex-post-facto is not synonymous with the contracts clause, though it does appear there. Please clarify or remove. Calaf (talk) 08:00, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Warren Bridge" Section

"The public started to complain about having to continue to pay tolls after the bridge’s profits had far surpassed the original capital, with interest; but the new investors did not care. In their opinion, they had paid a large sum for the bridge stock, and they were not about to stop collecting tolls until they themselves had turned a profit. These proprietors decided not to meet any of the public’s demands, and they refused both to improve services and reduce tolls."

Is there support for this? All the sources that I've seen indicate that the Charles Bridge investors became almost desperate to compromise with the Mass. legislature, even on the tolls issue, after bills to authorize the new bridge were introduced. See, for example Kutler's famous bio on the case, Privilege and Creative Destruction.

157.182.121.139 04:35, 5 March 2007 (UTC) Brian

[edit] Contradictory Information

While the Charles River Bridge section states that the bridges were not close together, the Warren Bridge sections says otherwise. Could someone with some knowledge of the truth fix this?

JimmyDief (talk) 04:38, 14 January 2008 (UTC)