Thompson's Express & Storage Co. v. Mount
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from a decree of the court of chancery advised by Vice-Chancellor Foster and reported in 88 N. J. Eq. 535. The Central Eailroad Company of New Jersey made a written agreement with the .complainant giving it the privilege of soliciting on the platform of the Lakewood station orders for baggage delivery, hack, taxicab and omnibus service, from arriving passengers, and also the privilege of soliciting on westbound trains orders for like service to and from Lakewood…
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On appeal from a decree of the court of chancery advised by Vice-Chancellor Foster and reported in 88 N. J. Eq. 535. The Central Eailroad Company of New Jersey made a written agreement with the .complainant giving it the privilege of soliciting on the platform of the Lakewood station orders for baggage delivery, hack, taxicab and omnibus service, from arriving passengers, and also the privilege of soliciting on westbound trains orders for like service to and from Lakewood station. These privileges were to he exclusive to such extent as the railroad company might lawfully so accord. The…
1Opinion of the Court
*498The opinion of the court was delivered by
Swayze, J.
The general question raised is not new. The great weight of authority sustains the complainants. It is enough to cite Barney v. Oyster Bay Steamboat Co., 67 N. Y. 301; Old Colony Railroad Co. v. Tripp, 147 Mass. 35; New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. v. Scovill, 71 Conn. 136; 41 Atl. Rep. 246; Donovan v. Pennsylvania Co., 199 U. S. 279. It would serve no useful purpose to repeat the reasons so well stated in these cases. All that is required of us is to pass upon the effect of our own statutes.
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