City of Cambridge v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

The city of Cambridge brings a suit in equity to restrain the Boston Elevated Railway Company from constructing its tracks in Third Street, a public highway within that city, and tracks connecting therewith. The Boston Elevated Railway Company brings a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the superintendent of streets of the city of Cambridge *376to issue permits or licenses to the railway company to open, use, occupy and encumber parts of Third Street and certain other streets for the purpose of laying tracks and setting poles in accordance with a location granted to it by the department of…