Mount Pleasant Cemetery Co. v. Erie Railroad

The opinion of the court.was delivered by

Pitney, J.

This is an action of ejectment brought to recover possession of certain lands in Essex county. It was originally commenced against the Erie Eailroad Company alone. The Paterson, Newark and New York Eailroad Company was admitted to defend the action as landlord, pursuant to the statute (Gen. Stat., p. 1284, § 17), and thereupon-filed a general plea of not guilty and six special pleas. To each of the special pleas the plaintiff filed replications. To three of these replications the last-named defendant has de*101murred; to the others it has…