Middlesex & Somerset Traction Co. v. Metlar

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

This is a certiorari to review an appointment of commissioners to condemn lands of the prosecutor under the Traction act of 1893. Gen. Slat., p. 3239, §§ 13, 14,

The defendant, the Middlesex and Somerset Traction Compaq, is the successor, by consolidation under the Traction act, of the Brunswick Traction Company, a corporation organized under that act. The Brunswick Traction Company leased from the prosecutor a strip of land about thirteen feet in width adjoining the public road from New Brunswick to Bound Brook, and constructed thereon a…