State v. New Haven & Northampton Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
The first of these cases was an application by the State Attorney for New Haven County for a mandamus to compel the respondents, a railroad company, to stop their trains at a certain station on the road, and the other an application by sundry citizens, under a statute of the state, to a judge of the Supreme Court, for an order to the same effect.
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The first of these cases was an application by the State Attorney for New Haven County for a mandamus to compel the respondents, a railroad company, to stop their trains at a certain station on the road, and the other an application by sundry citizens, under a statute of the state, to a judge of the Supreme Court, for an order to the same effect. The cases involving the same general question were heard together in this court.* The application of the State Attorney was as follows: u To the Honorable Superior Court, now in session at New Haven, within and for the county of New Haven, eomes…
1Opinion of the CourtSeymour, J.
These two cases are closely related to each other and were argued together, and will be considered as parts of one case.
The first is an application for a mandamus, to which an answer was filed, to which answer the attorney for the state demurred, and the questions reserved for the advice of this court arise on the demurrer.
The application is based on the statute passed in 1866, which in substance provides that no railroad corporation shall abandon any depot or station which is on its road in this state after the same has been established for twelve months, except by the approval of the…
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- Plunkett v. Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1891
- People v. New York, Lake Erie & Western RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- Duncan v. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1905
- I.C.R.R. Co. v. Commerce Com.Illinois Supreme Court · 1947
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