Mayor of Jersey City v. Consolidated Traction Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

In this declaration the plaintiff, the mayor and aldermen of Jorscy City, alleges the same facts as are set forth in the declaration by the. same plaintiff against the Jersey *365City and Bergen Railroad Company) which is the subject of the foregoing opinion, and in addition avers that on September 25th, 1893, the property and franchises of said Bergen company were leased and transferred, subject to all burdens and liabilities of said company, to the defendant in the present suit, the Consolidated Traction Company, which thereupon assumed said…