Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad v. Breckenridge

Emery, V. C.

This is a bill for a mandatory injunction and other equitable relief against the continuance of trespasses on lands alleged to be in complainant’s possession, as lessee of the Morris and Essex Railroad Company, and against the continued forcible occupation and forcible detention of these lands. The principal invasion of complainant’s rights, which is complained of, is the laying of pipes for the transportation of oil beneath the surface of an undergrade crossing, made by the Morris and Essex railroad in the original construction of its railroad across a farm in Warren county, then…