Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co. v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

By a written lease dated February 16, 1903, *660the Old Colony Street Railway Company leased a certain portion of its lines of railway and other property appurtenant thereto in the city of Boston to the Boston Elevated Railway Company. The demised property is described in the lease as all the lessor’s “railway and branches thereof” situated in a certain part of Boston, with a detailed description thereof, and including therein all the lessor’s “licenses, rights, franchises, easements, privileges and appurtenances belonging or appertaining thereto, or conveniently used in connection therewith” —…