Green v. Morris & Essex Railroad

The Chancellor.

The following are the material facts stated in the bill. The complainant is the owner of a farm in the county of Morris. The defendants, in the construction of their railroad, made an excavation through the complainant’s farm, of about five hundred feet in length, and varying from five to twelve feet deep. Commissioners were called under the charter of the company, who assessed the complainant’s damages at six hundred and eighty dollars. From this award the complainant appealed to the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the county of Morris, in which court he was entitled to…