Hewitt v. Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Co.

Pitney, V. C.

I The object of the bill is to enforce a submission to arbitration followed by an award of the arbitrator. The subject-matter of the arbitration was the price which the defendant railway company should pay the complainant for two strips of land belonging to him, taken and used by the railway company, by complainant’s permission, for many years before the submission. The immediate relief sought is to enjoin proceedings taken after the award, by the railway company, under the statute, for the condemnation of the lands and the appointment of commissioners by a justice of the supreme…