New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. City of New Haven
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition for an injunction; brought to the Superior Court. ■ Pacts found and case reserved for advice. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
This is a petition in chancery, praying for a perpetual injunction against the city of New Haven, restraining it from interfering with, or in any way interrupting, the petitioners in the occupancy of a certain tract of land lying within the city, and claimed by the city to be a part of Myrtle street.
The principal facts as found by the committee are, that prior to September 24th, 1835, the Hartford & New Haven Railroad was laid out one hundred feet wide across the land in dispute, and was located substantially where its first track was laid in 1836 and 1837. At that time Myrtle street had *259no…
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