Morris Canal & Banking Co. v. Central Railroad
New Jersey Court of Chancery
Upon the filing of the bill in this cause, an order was made that the defendants show cause why an injunction should not issue according to the prayer of the bill, and granting a temporary injunction in the meantime. The defendants filed their answers, and affidavits were taken, under an order of the court, to be read upon the argument of the rule to show cause.
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Upon the filing of the bill in this cause, an order was made that the defendants show cause why an injunction should not issue according to the prayer of the bill, and granting a temporary injunction in the meantime. The defendants filed their answers, and affidavits were taken, under an order of the court, to be read upon the argument of the rule to show cause. The cause was heard, by direction of the Chancellor, before James Wilson, esquire, one of the masters of the court, upon the rule, upon the bill, answers, and affidavits.
1Opinion of the Court
The Master.
The complainants, by their bill, set forth that under their charter and the supplements thereto, they constructed their canal from the waters of the Delaware to the waters of the Hudson, and that, in its easternmost section, it crosses the Hackensack river and Mill creek, and that the same are navigable streams. That the canal, from the Hackensack on the west to the Hudson on the east, is fed or supplied with water by the tide waters of New York bay, at a place called Fiddler’s Elbow, and by the tide waters which flow up from Hudson river or New York bay into Mill creek, and also…
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- Ex parte BurrU.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia · 1823
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