Delaware Bay & Cape May Railroad v. Markley
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from an order advised by Vice-Chancellor Bird, who filed the following conclusions: This company was organized under the General Railroad law passed in 1873 (Rev. p. 925 §§ 89, 90). It declared its purpose to be doing general business in the transportation of passengers and freight. It constructed its road from Cape May City to the steamboat landing, in all less than four miles in length.
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On appeal from an order advised by Vice-Chancellor Bird, who filed the following conclusions: This company was organized under the General Railroad law passed in 1873 (Rev. p. 925 §§ 89, 90). It declared its purpose to be doing general business in the transportation of passengers and freight. It constructed its road from Cape May City to the steamboat landing, in all less than four miles in length. It passed through-the village of Cape May, where two hundred to three hundred inhabitants reside permanently, and where several hundreds more reside in the Summer. Whether many or few •cannot be…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Beasley, C. J.
The appellant was organized, by virtue of the General Railroad act of this state, to construct a railroad of less than four miles in length from a point on the Delaware river called “ Steamboat Landing” to the city of Cape May. In joursuance of the authority thus obtained the road was built and completed in the year 1879. In the month of October, 1887, the respondent, a resident of Cape May Point, in this state, filed his petition to the chancellor, representing that this company had failed and neglected, for the space of ten days then…
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