Mayor of Metuchen v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Pitney, Y. C.

This suit is brought by the borough of Metuchen against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, as lessee, and the United Railroad Companies of New Jersey, as lessor, of a section of the great through railroad route between New York and Philadelphia.

Its object is to compel the defendants to correct and remedy certain alleged defects in a crossing of the railway over Main street in the borough.

The complainant invokes this action by this court under the twenty-ninth section of the revision of 1903 of the act concerning railroads, session laws of 1903. P. L. 1903 p. 660.

That section,…