Gibbons, William Heyward

Aaron Ogden operated a steamboat line between Elizabethtown, N.J. and New York City, on a license from Robert Livingston and Robert Fuller, who had been granted exclusive monopoly rights by the New York Legislature in 1800. When Thomas Gibbons, a former partner of Ogden, began running his own competing line, state courts issued an injunction against Gibbons. The case was brought to the U.S. Supreme Court where Marshall's decision in favor of Gibbons established the principle of freedom for interstate commerce.

From the description of Letter to Thomas Gibbons, 23 February 1824. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 236087517