Selectmen of Westwood v. Dedham & Franklin Street Railway Co.

This is a petition in equity* by the selectmen of the-town of Westwood to enforce compliance with a term of a street railway location as to fares. The defendant has succeeded to the rights and franchises of the Norfolk Western Street Railway Company. On August 10, 1898, after the required precedent proceedings by a majority of the directors of the Norfolk Western Street Railway Company, a street railway corporation in process of formation under our laws, an original location was granted to it by the selectmen of Westwood, authorizing it to operate a street railway in certain public ways in…