The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-20

the manner required by the respective
charters OF said companies aud the
various supplements thereto, and by the
laws OF the State of New Jersey: aud
thai the Pniladelphia and Reading
Railroad Company, it's officers and
agents, and the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company, its officers and agents, be
restrained and prohibited from further
performing and c trrying into effect the
lease and agreement, SO far as such
lease or agreement Opera ted to transfer
or control the railroad. property, priv j.
leges and franchises of the Easton II
Ambov RAILROAD Company aud the Lee
high Valley Terminal Rail way Company.
or D part thereof.
This order also provided that, "Whers-
as. IL had been represented by the ans wers
of the PniladelDhla aud Reading Railro d
Company. the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company, the Easton and Am boy Rail-
road Company aud the Lehigh Valley
Terminal Railway COMPANY, that the
lease made by the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road Company TO the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company, so far as it
related to the railroad property aud fran
enises OF the EastOn aud Annoy ksilroad
Company ana of the Lsnigh Valley Ter.
mlnal Railway Company had bsen can
celled and annulled. and that The Easto n
and Amboy Railroad Company had re-
sumed possession of its road. / operty
aud franchises, aud of the road, pr operty
and franchises of the Lshigh Valley Ter
minal Railway Company, and was oper-
atinR the same; that Gsorgs G. Ludlow,
one OF the Masters OF the court, be ap-
pointed TO report to the court, with all
convenient speed, whether such lease had
been IN fact wholly and in good faith
cancelled and annuiled.
PROVEN FACTS.
Under this order the Master, on June
IS, 1898. heard the testimony and ex-
amined the witnesses, all of whom con-
armed the facts set up in defendants an
Swer.
1t is now. on this twelfth day of July,
1893, ordered, adjudRed and decreed that
q perpetual injunction do issue against
the defendants hersin. restraining and
PROHIBITING them, and each of them, from
further performing aud carrying into
effect the aforesaid iudentnre OF lease
made between the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Company and the Philadsiphia and
Reading Railroad Company on the
eleventh day OF February, 1892, Ia SO far
as it attempts to transfer the railroad,
property, privileges aud frauchises of the
Eastor and Anboy Railroad Company
and the Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway
Company TO the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad Company. and that the said
the Easron and Amboy Railroad Com
pany do operate its railroads, property,
privileges and franchises, and the rail-
road property, privileges aud franchises
of the Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway
Company, heretofore leased to 1t, BY It's
own officers and agents in the
required by the respective charters of
SAID companies, and the various supple
ments thereto, and by the laws of the
State of New Jersey.
Aud it is further ordered that the said
Masters report be in all things approved
and confirmed, with costs of this suit to
De taxed, and that che defendant, the
Easton aud Annoy Railroad Company,
pay to the Master the sum of three hun
dred dollars in lieu Of all Masters fees,
and pay the compiainant's costs of the
reference to said Master, including the
stenographer's bill.
concluded the last report / made to
the Governor by stating that the vital
question that was then before the court
was. whether foreign corporations could
combine with the creatures of this State
to establish m~onopoliss In the necessaries
of life, and whistler exfsing monopolies
mad yet attained sufficient strength to
defy the power of the courts to execute
the laws. That the question was simply
whether the corporations should rule or
the people through the government they
had established.
Impressed as / was with the paramount
Importance of the question involved in
these causes. as well as the great RESPONSE
billy resting upon me, nothing in my
power was left undone to protect the
public. vfndicate the dignity of the State
aud enforce the authority OF it's courts.
1t is, therefore, with gre at satisfaction
that l now report the ST successful conclu.
sion Of the litigation.