Watercraft Quotes
Fulton issued permits and seized boats that operated without their endorsement. A steamboat operator, Thomas Gibbons, had received a permit from the Federal Government to operate steamboat service between New York City and the New Jersey Shore. Fulton and New York would not let him traverse Hudson Bay and land in New York. This set the stage for the most important Supreme Court Case on Interstate Commerce--Gibbons v. Ogden (1824). See {621351}.