State v. Lackawanna Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

The Lackawanna Railroad Company of New Jersey was indicted and convicted for maintaining a nuisance in a public street in the borough of Andover by erecting in said street the abutments for an overhead bridge by which its tracks were carried over and across such public road. These abutments were erected in the public road and encroached upon each side of it to the extent of four and one-half feet, thereby reducing the road from its legal width of thirty-three feet to an actual width of twenty-four feet. These facts having been shown br the…