Brooklyn Heights R. v. City of Brooklyn.
New York City Court
Appeal from special term. Action by the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company to restrain the city of .Brooklyn from preventing plaintiff from laying certain railroad tracks. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtVan Wyok, J.
The plaintiff was duly incorporated, and acquired by purchase and by resolutions of the Brooklyn common council its franchise, under and in pursuance of the provisions of Laws 1884, c. 252, and Law's 1886, c. 642. By the terms of the franchise and resolutions, express consent and authority were given to plaintiff to construct a cable road from Court street through Montague street to Wall street ferry, and also to construct “connections, sid*877ings, switches, turnouts, and turntables * * * necessary for the housing aud care of its cars, ” in locations approved of by the commissioners of city…
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