Southern Railway Co. v. City of Knoxville

This case filed under our Declaratory Judgment Statutes questions the authority of the City of Knoxville by ordinance and implementing resolution thereunder to require Southern Railway Company to construct, operate and maintain automatic signals and crossing gates at several street-railway crossings at the sole expense of Southern Railway Company.

The ordinance in question is Section 31-2 of the Knoxville City Code, which reads as follows:

There shall be erected at all grade crossings on the line of any railroad in the City over which trains are operated, electric signals, crossings gates or…