The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-22
ALL WIRES ARE STRUNG.
ELECTRIC CARS BLLL RUN OYER
 BRIDGE STREET CROSSING.

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 Iy Strung the Wires.
 Late yesterday afternoon Judge HotchIss of the common pleas court issued an injunction restraining the | New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company from interfering with the laying of tracks and stringlng or electric wires across the Bridge street | crossing of the Consolidated road ln thls city. The injunction was prayed out oy AIIine. Webb X Morehouse, as counsel for the New Haven Street Railroad com pany.
 Shortly before o'clock Judge Hotch- kiss granted the temporary inJunctlon and the papers in the case were lmme- diately served on President Clark ana Vice President Hall of the New York; New Haven and Hartford Railroad cohl- pany at the offices of the company
 The service was a complete surprise to the officials of the road, as they dld not anticipate any such movement. When the Consolidated Railroad com pany last Saturday secured the injuncy ton restraining the Fair Haven and Westville Railroad company from StIlnglllS US WlICpy NNS'j e'~AN'10 Bridge street crossing, they overlooked the fact that the general assembly mas also given the New Haven and Morris Cove Railroad company like permission and therefore the latter company was not included in the injunction proceed ings. Yesterday the New Haven Street Railroad company which purchased the franchise of the New Haven ana Morris Cove Railroad company, took time by the forelock and prayed out the l injunction which restraints the steam railroad company from interfering with them in any way whatever
 After hearing the statements of the l case Judge HotohlSiss granted tempo rary injunction restraining and pre- venting the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company from ob- structing, molesting or in any way hin dering the New Haven Street Railway company from constructing it's overhead electrical equipment and from in any | way interfering with the tracks of the plaintiff, the railroHd bed, the over | head electrical construction or the operation of said street railroad at said Bridge street crossing.
 By the writ the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company | is summoned to appear before the su- perior court to be held in this city on l the first Tuesday in March and then and there to answer to the New Haven
 Street Railroad company in civil ac- | ton.
 The complaint states that the New | Haven Street Railroad company has | o.Nx .toy and franchises of the New Haven and Mor- ris Cove Railroad company, and then goes on By virtue of said charter and 1 franchises the plaintiff now operates l steel railway running from Morris Cove to Bridge. street, and by virtue of the resolution of the general assembly l found in the special acts of 1893, page l 1.O7O, the Fair Haven and Westville Railroad company not having proceeded | with reasonable dispatch to equip Throughout electrically its line of street rauway from Tomlinson bridge over ana across the tracks of the Consolidat- ed Railroad company on Bridge street
 to either Water or State streets, the plaintiff is authorized at once to con-
 struct overhead electrical equipment
 on the line of said street railway of
 the Fair Haven and Westville Railroad
 company through Bridge street and
 across the tracks of the defendant com
 pany and to use such tracks through
 Bridge street for the purpose of operat-
 ing it's cars by electricity over the
 same.
 It is further stated that as the Fair
 Haven and Westville Railroad company
 has not commenced the work through
 Bridge street with proper dispatch, by the provision of the resolution of the | general assembly, the right to string
 wires, lay tracks and operate cars by
 electricity across the Bridge street
 crossing is given to the Morris Cove
 Railway company and that the New
 Haven Street Railway company, which
 has absorbed all the rights, franchises,
 etc, of the Morris Cove Railroad com
 pany intends to immediately commence
 to operate Its cars by electricity over
 said line of street railway through
 bridge street.
 The temporary injunction granted by
 Judge Hotchkiss restraints the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road company until the first Tuesday in March unless previously dissolved. ALL WIRES ARE STRUNG.
 Immediately after the injunction had
 been granted by Judge Hotchkiss
 about twenty workmen carrying coils
 of wire, etc., were dispatched to the
 Bridge street crossing and within a few minutes the work of stringing the
 wires had been commenced The poles are already planted and the tracks laid The tall tower wagon was also , upon the scene and the work of string. ing the wires across the Consolidated tracks progressed with rapidity
 When several of the wires had beer
 strung it was ascertained that the
 safety gates at the crossing could
 not be operated. Word was at once sent to w. B. Stoddard of the law , firm of Bristol, Stoddard & Bristol , counsel for the Consolidated Railroad company and he sent back the ad vice, so 1t was said, "to cut the wires
 The street railroad company suggested } to the Consolidated Railroad company'E employees to cut off the top of the gates but this advice was not acted upon an( 5 the gates remained open throughou
 the evening, the approach of trains