What Does It Mean?

The supreme court of Michigan has finally decided the famous case of Tbeodore S. Nichols, Ella E. Nichols and Lucy L. Granger vs. the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway Company. The verdict given in thecircuit court is reversed and the following decree is recorded: "It appearing to this conrt that the line of said defendant's said railroad is alongtbe side of the highway across the lands of the said complainante and within two or three feet of the fence upon complainants' side of the highway and is built and constructed as an ordinary commercial road with ties and T rails; and that the place along said highway where so built and the manner of the construction such that said complainants are not permitted that free use of the highway or ingrese and t-gress to their lands to which they are entitled; and that the place whree built :nd mode of construction across complainants' lands is an injury to tlieir property rights in said highway; tlierefore, It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that the said defendant, the agents, Eervants, employees and aesignees be and they are hefeby perpetually enjoinedfrom operating said railway over and along complainanth' said land over said railroad where now constructed and in the manner now constructcd; and from running thereon cars along and over said railroad in front of the complainants' said pre m ises," and then follows a description of the property. The complainants recover costs. The decisión seemsto be about as intelligible as David B. Hill's latest speech on silver. It is difflcult to see whether it stops the cars of the railroad entirely or whether it simply competa them to change the manner in which the track is constructed. In either caso, it is likely that some means wonld be found to keep the line in opera tion.