Board of Chosen Freeholders v. Central Railroad
New Jersey Court of Chancery
The bill in this case is filed by the board of chosen freeholders of the county of Hudson and by the boulevard commissioners of the county of Hudson against the Central Bailroad Company of New Jersey and the G-oubert Manufacturing Company.
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The bill in this case is filed by the board of chosen freeholders of the county of Hudson and by the boulevard commissioners of the county of Hudson against the Central Bailroad Company of New Jersey and the G-oubert Manufacturing Company. The city of Bayonne was subsequent^, by amendment to the bill, made a party defendant. » , • The object of the bill is to obtain an injunction against the Central Bailroad Company restraining it from entering upon the Hudson boulevard at a point where the same is intersected by West Second street, in the city of Bayonne, and tearing up the surface of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Garrison, V. C.
The first question for determination is whether this court has any jurisdiction in this suit.
The consent of all the parties to the making of the order of August 2d, 1904, by the terms of which it is provided that this court shall retain jurisdiction of this cause, will, of course, not be effectual if the court is without jurisdiction of the subject-matter.
It is too well settled to require citation that jurisdiction over the subject-matter of a litigation cannot be created or conferred by consent, and that unless the court has jurisdiction of the subject-matter it may not be…
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