Inhabitants of Raritan v. Port Reading Railroad

The Chancellor.

The defendant railroad company is erecting, in the public highway known as Smith road, two abutments, twenty-five feet apart and about seventy-five long and six feet wide, upon which it proposes to erect a bridge, over the highway, for its railroad. At the point where the bridge is to be erected the entire width of the road is fifty feet, and the part in actual use by vehicles is about twelve feet wide. It is not even pretended that, to enable the defendant to bridge the highway, it is necessary to place the abutments in the road. On the contrary, it plainly appears that the…