Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad v. Brooklyn Cable Co.

Nothing need be added to the able opinion of the learned judge who tried this case. All the facts are therein fully stated, and we concur in the law therein expressed. This general term in February last passed upon a case1 in many respects similar to this, in which it was held that under such a contract the party hiring a right to run upon the tracks of another railroad could keep the right, or part with it by assignment, but it could not retain the right itself, and multiply the beneficiaries. The contract here is a mere license or privilege for hire. It is not a lease conveying an interest…