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HOBOKEN v. PENN. RAILROAD CO.

124 U.S. 656 (1888)

HOBOKEN v. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY. SAME v. SAME. SAME v. SCHMIDT. SAME v. SAME. SAME v. HAMBURG-AMERICAN STEAM PACKET COMPANY. SAME v. NORTH GERMAN LLOYD STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 20, 1888.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James F. Minturn for plaintiff in error.

Mr. James B. Vredenburgh for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, defendant in error.

Mr. Barker Gummere for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, defendant in error.

Mr. Leon Abbett for Adolph E. Schmidt, Leopold Goldschmidt, The Hamburg-American Steam Packet Company and The North German Lloyd Steamship Company, defendants in error.

Mr. J.D. Bedle for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, defendant in error.

Mr. Thomas N. McCarter for plaintiff in error.

MR. JUSTICE MATTHEWS, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

In the year 1873 the Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey decided the case of the Hoboken Land and Improvement Co. v. Hoboken, 7 Vroom, (36 N.J. Law,) 540. It was an action of ejectment for the recovery of the possession of a strip of land, constituting the extension of Fourth Street, as laid out on the Loss map, over lands...

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