City of Newark v. Central R. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; Charles F. Dynch, Judge. Suit in equity by the City of Newark and others against the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey and another. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIS, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court denying a preliminary injunction and dismissing the bill filed by the city of Newark. The city of Jersey City and the state of New Jersey intervened as parties' complainant. The object of the bill was to restrain the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey from building a drawbridge across the mouth of Newark Bay below the city of Newark, between the city of Elizabeth in Union county and the city of Bayonne, in Hudson county, N. J., to replace a drawbridge constructed at about the same location shortly after 1860, and…
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