Morris & Essex Railroad v. Blair
Supreme Court of New Jersey
The injunction was issued in this cause upon the filing of the complainant’s bill, by one of the masters, without notice to the defendants. Upon the coming in of the answer, an order was made dissolving the injunction. From that order the complainants appealed.
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The injunction was issued in this cause upon the filing of the complainant’s bill, by one of the masters, without notice to the defendants. Upon the coming in of the answer, an order was made dissolving the injunction. From that order the complainants appealed. The grounds upon which the order dissolving the injunction was made, and a full statement of the case, is contained in the opinion of Abraham Browning, Esq., one of the masters of this court, to whom the matter had been referred.
1Opinion of the Court
The Master.
The bill in this case was filed on the 28th day of July, 1853. It sets forth that the complainants were incorporated on the 29th day of January, 1835, and, by their charter, authorized to construct a railroad |rom the track of the New Jersey Raih’oad, either at Newark or at Elizabeth-town, to the village of Morristown. That they were duly organized as a company on the 14th day oflSeptember, 1835 j and that, under their charter, and a supplement passed March 2d, 1836, they constructed their road from Newark to Morristown, at a cost of two hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars.…
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