Trustees of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. City of New Bedford

The city of New Bedford was authorized on December 24, 1906, by orders of the county commissioners of the county of Bristol, to lay out and construct Coggeshall and Cedar Grove streets across and under the railroad of the Old Colony Railroad Company, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company being the lessee, and was ordered to construct a steel girder bridge, supported by concrete masonry abutments, for the purpose of carrying the railroad over each of these two streets. The bridges and abutments were constructed in accordance with these orders by the railroad corporation…