People v. Metropolitan Traction Co.

This is a motion to set aside the indictment filed on the 29th day of January, 1897, against the two defendant corporations, the Metropolitan Traction Company and the Metropolitan Street Railway Company. The offense charged against both defendants is that of maintaining a public nuisance “ at all the times from the 16th day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven,” up to the date of the indictment, by “hauling, driving and propelling divers street ears around a'turn or curve-on the line of its road situated at Fourteenth street and Broadway, in the City of New York, at a high…