Attorney General v. Metropolitan Railroad

This is an information in equity filed by the attorney general, at the relation of Eben Jordan and others, occupiers of land abutting on Washington Street in the city of Boston. As it was first filed, it alleged that the defendant corporation, under the authority of an order of the board of aldermen of the city of Boston, was about to lay down two parallel street railway tracks in Washington Street, between Temple Place and Summer Street, and to run its cars thereon; that it was impossible to lay down these tracks, so as to leave sufficient space for ordinary vehicles to pass between either…