TOLL BRIDGE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Toll bridge

... River Bridge Company v. Warren Bridge Company,[1660] which was decided shortly after Chief Justice Marshall's death by a substantially new Court. The question at issue was whether the charter of the complaining company, which authorized it to operate a toll bridge, stood in the way of the State's permitting another company of later date to operate a free bridge in the immediate vicinity. Inasmuch as the first company could point to no clause in its charter which specifically vested it with an exclusive right, the Court ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin