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 LATHROP i». JUNO. B.' 00. 4S �entered withoùt prejudice to such rights, or to the assertiôû •of them in appropriate proceeding. �Various other facts are alleged in the bills of complaint, aiid are Teritied by the aocompanying affidavits, which, ail together, constitute a "etrange, eventfui" history of the con- Btraction of the road. �Enough of them have heen here stated to indieate the vital objeet, and the essential importance to the public of the con- struction of the road. �The Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia & Eeading, and the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Eailroads terminated at Philadelphia. They vreie unconnected with each other, and so the immense traffic requiring transfer from the one to the other was necessarily conducted with great expense, in- convenience, and embarrassment. These difficulties could be almost entirely avoided by the construction of a continuons line, only about four miles long, from Gfày's ferry to Peters îsland, and àccordingly the Junction road was ' projected and made. A brôken line, with a gàp in the middle of it, would not answer the purposef its contihUity was absolutely essen- tial to effectuate the objeet of its crealiioti, as well as to meet the itifet expectation of its stockholders and the public. Sp, in the annual report of the Pennsylvanîàt Eailroad Company, Pebruary 3, 1862, it is said: "The Philadelphia, Wilming- ton & Baltimore Kailroad Company, the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, and the Pennsylvania Eailroad Oompaiiy bave organized the Jtmction Eailroad Company, under a charter procured from the legislature of 1860, and amended at the last session. The objeet of this line is to con- neet these three railroads by a cotitinuous line along the west bank of the Schuylkill river, from the Eeading Eailroad, near Peters island bridge, to the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Eailroad, at Gray's ferry, intersecting the Pennsyl- vania Railroad near the wire bridge at Falrmount, so that an interchange of freight between these lines may be effected without passing through the populous portions of the city." �In apparent aceordance with the declaration, were ail the acts and declarations of the Pennsylvania Eailroad Company ����