Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. v. Salem Terminal Corp.

After the decision of this case (Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. v. Salem Terminal Corp. 252 Mass. 439), a decree was entered in the Superior Court restraining the defendant from obstructing the plaintiff’s access to the wharf in question “within a space alongside said triangular section seventy-five (75) feet wide measured southwesterly . . . such width tapering to a width of at least forty (40) feet at a point opposite the southeasterly end of the riprap.” From this decree the plaintiff appealed. It contends that a decree, in accordance with the opinion of the full court, should…