Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad v. Denver & New Orleans Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
CROSS APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STAGES POR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. This was a bill in equity filed by the Denver & New Orleans Railroad Company, a Colorado corporation, owning and operating a railroad in that State between Denver and Pueblo, a distance of about one hundred and twenty-five miles, against the Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fé Railroad Company, a Kansas corporation, owning and operating a railroad in that State from the Missouri River, at Kansas…
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CROSS APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STAGES POR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. This was a bill in equity filed by the Denver & New Orleans Railroad Company, a Colorado corporation, owning and operating a railroad in that State between Denver and Pueblo, a distance of about one hundred and twenty-five miles, against the Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fé Railroad Company, a Kansas corporation, owning and operating a railroad in that State from the Missouri River, at Kansas City, westerly to the Colorado' State line, and also operating from there, under a lease, a road in Colorado from the…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Chief Justice 'Waite
delivered the opinion of the court.
After reciting the facts in the foregoing language he continued:
The case has been presented by counsel in two aspects:
1. In view of the requirements of the Constitution of Colorado alone; and
2. In view of the constitutional and common-law obligations of railroad companiés in Colorado as common carriers.
We will-first consider the requirements of the Constitution; and here it may be premised that sec. 6 of art. 15 imposes no greater obligations upon the company than the common law would have imposed without it. Every, common carrier…
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