The Forty-second Street, Manhattanville & St. Nicholas Avenue Railway Co. v. Comprehensive Omnibus Corp.

The defendant possesses a franchise to operate buses along Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets from the east side to the west side. Pending the formal requirements preliminary to *879obtaining a franchise, the board of estimate and apportionment of the city of New York has issued to the defendant a permit to extend the operation of its buses to the West Forty-second Street Ferry, along Eleventh and Twelfth avenues. The plaintiff operates a street surface railway, under a lawful franchise, whereby, through the Third Avenue Railway System, of which it is a part, it transports passengers to the same…