City of Worcester v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME JUDICIAL AND THE SUPERIOR COURTS OP THE COMMONWEALTH OP MASSACHUSETTS. These five cases were brought here by writs of error, s,ued out by the city of Worcester, for the purpose of reviewing the several judgments of the Supreme and Superior Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, respectively, affirming the judgments of the trial courts in favor of the railroad company, the defendant in error.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME JUDICIAL AND THE SUPERIOR COURTS OP THE COMMONWEALTH OP MASSACHUSETTS. These five cases were brought here by writs of error, s,ued out by the city of Worcester, for the purpose of reviewing the several judgments of the Supreme and Superior Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, respectively, affirming the judgments of the trial courts in favor of the railroad company, the defendant in error. The five cases involve the same questions and were brought for the purpose of answering any possible objection to the particular mode adopted in any one case for the purpose of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The defendant in error makes no objection to the form in which the question to be decided comes before us. Whether one or the other action or proceeding is proper and appropriate need not, therefore, be considered. .
The contention on the part of the plaintiff in error is that, by virtue of the restrictions or conditions placed by it upon granting the various extensions of locations of the tracks of the railroad company, and by the acceptance of the same by the company, a contract was entered into between the city and the railroad company, which could not be altered without the consent of both…
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- New Orleans v. ClarkSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
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