Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. v. Western Maryland Railroad

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Washington County, in equity, passed on the petition of The Western Maryland Railroad Company granting it permission to construct certain bridges across the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal., The Railrpad Company was not only duly authorized but

was required by the Act of 1902, ch. 129, amending its charter, to extend its railroad facilities to the coal fields of Western Maryland. In the discharge of this obligation it proceeded to locate an extension of the line of its road from the terminus at Big Pool in Washington County to the city of…