WILLSON AND OTHERS v. the Black Bird Creek Marsh Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding an act empowering the State’s construction of a dam that obstructed an interstate walkway is not “repugnant to the power to regulate commerce in its dormant state”
• a measure benefitting the public held valid although it was to be made effective through the instrumentality of a private company
• explicitly recognizing the negative aspect of the Commerce Clause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).