Boston & Maine Railroad v. Lowell & Lawrence Railroad

This is a hill in equity to restrain the defendant corporation from locating and constructing an extension of its railroad in the city of Lawrence, within and along a part of the location of the plaintiff’s railroad, and over land purchased by the plaintiff for depot and station purposes.

The original location of the plaintiff’s railroad was filed in 1847, under the St. of 1846, c. 75. Although the description and plan of that location do not furnish sufficient means for fixing the boundaries thereof with absolute accuracy, without reference to the lines of the railroad as constructed, it…