Supreme Court of the United States November 13, 1922, 35, 36 (New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. Fruchter)

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Mc. Justice McReynolds

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Since 1908, One Hundred and Forty-Ninth Street, New York City, has been carried over and across the tracks of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad by a public municipal steel truss bridge of standard construction. The bridge is fifty-four feet wide, two hundred and seventy feet long and is formed of posts, beams, girders, etc.