Central Railroad v. N. J. West Line Railroad

The Chancellor.

The bill was filed in 1879, by The Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, The American Dock Company, Francis S. Lathrop, receiver for the creditors and stockholders of the former company, and John C. Van Horne, against The New Jersey West Line Railroad Company, William L. Earned, receiver for the creditors and stockholders of that company, The Trustees for the Support of Public Schools, Asa Packer, Lloyd Chamberlain and others. Its object is to obtain relief against a certain grant of land under water, made by the state to the West Line Railroad Company. That company, and its…