Gasser v. Garden Bay Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Delta; Flannigan, J. Bill by Wilbert W. Gasser against the Garden Bay Railway Company and others for the foreclosure of a mortgage and the discontinuance of defendant railway as a common carrier. The people of the State of Michigan and others intervened relative to the discontinuance. From the decree rendered, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
The vital proposition presented in this case involves the further existence and continuance for public service of the Garden Bay railway which is about 13 miles in length, extending northerly from a small hamlet called Garden, on Big Bay de Noc in Delta county at the north end of Green Bay, and a junction point on the Soo Line railroad called Cook’s Mill.
The following findings by the learned circuit judge who heard the case well outlines the essentials for a general understanding of the nature of the controversy and the salient questions of fact and law involved, with the attitudes of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Central Bank & Trust Corp. v. ClevelandCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1918
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