New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. Bridgeport Traction Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for an injunction to prevent and restrain the defendant from constructing its electric railway across and upon the tracks of the plaintiff at a certain highway crossing in the city of Bridgeport; brought to the Superior Court in Fair-field County and tried to the court, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Suit for an injunction to prevent and restrain the defendant from constructing its electric railway across and upon the tracks of the plaintiff at a certain highway crossing in the city of Bridgeport; brought to the Superior Court in Fair-field County and tried to the court, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. I. The legislature gave the defendant, in express terms, the right to construct its electric line across the tracks of the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The plaintiff’s complaint is in the nature of a pure injunction bill. It avers that it sends about two hundred regular trains of cars daily, some of which carry the mails of the United States, and the rest passengers and freight, across Fairfield avenue in the city of Bridgeport, at grade; that the defendant threatens to obstruct the plaintiff’s right of way by forcibly laying tracks for an electric railway over said crossing and upon the plaintiff’s tracks; and that if such new tracks are so laid and used, it will seriously impair the plaintiff’s power to fulfill its chartered purposes,…
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- State v. StollSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
- City of Bridgeport v. New York & New Haven RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1869
- Matter of Commissioners of Central ParkNew York Court of Appeals · 1872
- Dyson v. New York & New England RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1888
- Lewis v. WilsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
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