Early in 1828, both companies were in the field surveying the route of their two highways. At the point of conflict, where the railway approached the Potomac River, it was easily seen that trouble would be precipitated. In fact, as early as June 10, the canal company got from Judge Buchanan an injunction against the railway company, to prevent them from encroaching upon lands needed by the former and granted them by charter rights.[1] The railway company returned the compliment by obtaining an injunction from the "chancellor of the state of Maryland" likewise restraining the canal company.[2] " . . If we understand it [the situation]," wrote the perplexed editor of the Register, June 28, "the state of things is as it was, before the injunction obtained of Judge Buchanan."[3] The canal promoters' view of the affair was thus voiced by the editor of the National Journal: "It appears to us to be very essential to the harmonious prosecution of these two great works, that
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