Case ID: nj-eq_28/html/0537-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Chancellor.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Midland Terminal and Ferry Company v. Isaac K. Wilson and others.
    Equity will protect by injunction the owner of a ferry franchise on the Hudson river, against infringement by a rival ferry without a license from this state or the state of New York; such infringement consisting of regular, hourly trips by a ferry-boat, and the solicitation of passengers on their way to complainants’ ferry.
    Bill .for injunction. On order to show cause. On the bill and answer and affidavits on both sides.
    
      
      Mr. J. B. Vredenburgh, for the complainants.
    
      Mr. C. H. Machin, of New York, for the defendants.
   The Chancellor.

The complainants are the owners of a franchise of ferry across the Hudson river. The defendants carry passengers in their boat across the river on what the defendants call “ excursions.” The complainants, on the case made by the hill and their affidavits, are entitled to a preliminary injunction. It is shown that their ferry franchise is directly interfered with by the defendants; that persons on their way to the ferry, to cross the river thereby, are, by the solicitation of those in charge of the defendants’ boat, induced to cross in that boat instead of crossing by the ferry; and that the business of the ferry, has been thus sensibly and very materially interfered with and prejudiced. The defendants make no claim of right of ferry, though they claim the right to transport passengers in their boat from one side of the river to the other, under their license from the United States to ply in the harbor and bay of New York. This gives them no right of ferry. Their so-called “ excursions ” are not merely occasional, but regular, hourly trips from one side of the river to the other.

Injunction ordered.