City of New York v. Forty-Second Street & Grand Street Ferry Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Action by the city of New York against the Firty-Second Street & Grand Street Ferry Railroad Company and others. From an interlocutory judgment overruling demurrers to the complaints, defendants appeal. Reversed in part.
1Opinion of the CourtIngraham, J.
This action is brought to recover license fees for cars used by the defendant the Metropolitan Street Railroad Company in the operation of a street railroad. The complaint, after alleging the incorporation of the plaintiff and of the defendants, alleges that the defendant Forty-Second Street & Grand Street Ferry Railroad. Company on .or about February 21, 1863, became the assignee of one John C. Conoyer and others, of the rights, privileges, and franchises conferred upon them by virtue of chapter 515 of the Laws of I860; that in and by said act it was provided, among other things, that said…
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