People v. Broadway Railroad
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal to the Court of Appeals from a judgment of the General Term reversing a judgment of the Special Term. ■ The action was brought by the Attorney General in behalf of the people of the State against the Broadway Railroad Company of Brooklyn to annul the defendants’ charter, or to have the additional privileges and franchises granted to it by the laws of i860, chapter 461, vacated and annulled.
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Appeal to the Court of Appeals from a judgment of the General Term reversing a judgment of the Special Term. ■ The action was brought by the Attorney General in behalf of the people of the State against the Broadway Railroad Company of Brooklyn to annul the defendants’ charter, or to have the additional privileges and franchises granted to it by the laws of i860, chapter 461, vacated and annulled. The further facts sufficiently appear in the following opinion of the court at special term :
1Opinion of the CourtMayham, J.
The people bring this action in the name of the Attorney General to have the charter of the defendant annulled or adjudged forfeited, or the charter privileges of said defendant given and granted by the act of the legislature passed in i860, and the franchise connected therewith, vacated, annulled and declared forfeited.
The defendant was organized under the general railroad act of 1850, and under chapter 303, laws of 1858, for the purpose of building a street railroad from the foot of Broadway in the city of Brooklyn through that street to the village of East New York in Kings county, a…
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