Mohawk Bridge Co. v. Utica & Schenectady Rail Road
New York Court of Chancery
This was an application for an injunction, by the Mo% hawk Bridge Company and 24 others, to restrain the defendants from erecting a bridge for the passage of their railway across the Mohawk river at the city of Schenectady.
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This was an application for an injunction, by the Mo% hawk Bridge Company and 24 others, to restrain the defendants from erecting a bridge for the passage of their railway across the Mohawk river at the city of Schenectady. The Mohawk Bridge Company were the owners of a toll bridge across the river about one hundred rods above where the defendants had commenced and were proceeding to erect their bridge for the passage of their rail road cars, locomotive engines and passengers on their railway; and the other complainants were land owners adjoining the river. The Mohawk Bridge Company alleged…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
Being satisfied upon, the hearing of this application that a preliminary injunction ought not to be granted, I have delayed the decision to give the Mohawk Bridge Company an opportunity, if they thought proper, to try the question in a suit at law against the defendants, whether .the carrying of passengers across the river in the rail road Cars, on their way to different places op the line of the road, was an infringement of the charter of the bridge company, as. alleged in the bill in this cause. But perceiving from the published reports of the proceedings of the le*561gislature…
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