Mayor of Jersey City v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

The Chancellor.

On the 22d of May, 1888, at the instance of the Hew York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company, then the owner of all the land which fronted on the northerly side of Tenth street, in Jersey City, between *435■Grove and Henderson streets, the mayor and alderman of Jersey City passed an ordinance, the design of which was to -grant permission to that railroad company to continue to maintain a covered platform for freight,-which it had theretofore •erected, on the north side of Tenth street, between the streets named, to within three feet of…