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BARBER ASPHALT PAVING CO. v. FORTY-SECOND ST., M. & ST. N. AVE. RY. CO.

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York1910-03-31
177 F. 998

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Opinion

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LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.

The receiver of the Forty-Second Street, Manhattanville & St Nicholas Avenue Railway Company asks for an order directing the defendant Metropolitan Street Railway Company, and Adrian H. Joline and Douglas Robinson, as its receivers, to recognize the right of the Foity-Second Street, Manhattanville & St. Nicholas Avenue Railway Company to maintain and operate a street surface railroad in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York, on Amsterdam avenue, between Seventy-First street and 125th street, and to use in the operation of its street surface railroad on Amsterdam avenue, between said streets, the present electric conduit or electric construction tracks and equipment now laid and existing and in use in Amsterdam avenue, between said streets, in common with said Metropolitan Street Railway Company, or Adrian H. Joline and Douglas Robinson, its receivers, and the Ninth Avenue Railroad Company, or by joint operation with them or either or any of them.

The court is not inclined to dispose of the numerous and difficult questions here presented in any such summary manner. As to the subsidiary or alternative relief prayed for, the receivers of the Metropolitan Street Railway and the receivers of the Forty-Second Street, etc., Railway are authorized, but not instructed, to enter into negotiations with each other touching the operation of cars within the limits above set forth; and in the event of such negotiations resulting in nothing the receiver of the last-named road is authorized to bring suit; in any court, to establish any right which he may be advised said road possesses, and he may make the receivers of the Metropolitan Street Railwa) Company defendants in such suit.

This disposition of the pending motion is not to be construed as indicating the expression of an opinion one way or the other upon any of the points presented by the petition and answers or discussed on the argument.