State v. New Haven & Northampton Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application for a mandamus, to compel the respondents, a railroad corporation, to resume the use of a station upon their railroad which had been abandoned, and to stop their trains at the same; brought by the Attorney for the State for Hartford County to the Superior Court in that county.
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Application for a mandamus, to compel the respondents, a railroad corporation, to resume the use of a station upon their railroad which had been abandoned, and to stop their trains at the same; brought by the Attorney for the State for Hartford County to the Superior Court in that county. The Attorney averred in the application that the respond- ' ents were authorized by their charter, which was granted by the General Assembly in 1846, to construct and operate a railroad from New Haven in this state northerly to the town of Farmington in this state, through the town of Southington, with a…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The defendants for several years past had a station for freight and passengers at Plantsville in the town of Southington. They continued to stop their trains at this station until 1874, when, by the approval of the railroad commissioners, the station was abandoned. In 1875 the legislature upon certain conditions required the defendants to stop their trains at this station. The conditions were complied with, and the defendants refusing to obey the injunction of the legislature, this proceeding is instituted for the purpose of enforcing obedience.
The writ of mandamus is resisted on several…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Town of Chester v. Connecticut Valley RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1874
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