Board of Chosen Freeholders v. Jersey City, Hoboken & Paterson Street Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief Justice.

This action was brought by the board of freeholders to recover from the defendant com*180pany a portion of the cost incurred by the board in the laying of a granite block pavement upon a portion of the Paterson plank road, a public highway of the county, through which the company operates an electric railway. This railway was originally constructed by the Jersey City, Hoboken and Rutherford Electric Railway Company, a corporation organized in 1893, under the Street Railway act of 1886. Comp. Btat., p. 1998. The eighteenth section of…