Rockaway Rolling Mill v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief-Justice.

The complainant is the owner of a tract of land in the township of Rockaway, which is bisected by the defendant railroad companies’ right of way. A large manufacturing plant has been erected upon a portion of the tract lying west of the right of way, and is being operated by the complainant. The only means of access to and egress from the complainant’s plant is a private road, or wagonway, leading therefrom over and across the defendants’ right of way, and then through the remaining section of the complainant’s tract to a public…