City of Elmira v. Maple-Avenue Railroad

The plaintiff is a municipal, and the defendant a domestic, corporation. The latter was incorporated and organized for the purpose of constructing and operating a street railroad upon and over certain streets in the former. About June 30, 1887, the common council of said city, for a valuable consideration paid, sold to the defendant, as by statute in such case provided, the right to construct and operate a street railroad on the surface of the soil, and upon the planking of Lake-Street bridge, through, along, and upon Lake street, from the intersection of the north line of Water street to the…