State v. Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Warren county. HoN. Claude Pixtard, Chancellor. Section 4 of the act amendatory of the railroad supervision laws of this state, approved February 22, 1890 (Laws 1890, p. 106), is as follows :— “Every railroad company shall establish and maintain such depots as shall be reasonably necessary for the public convenience, and shall stop such of the passenger and freight trains at any depot as the business and public convenience shall require.
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From the chancery court of Warren county. HoN. Claude Pixtard, Chancellor. Section 4 of the act amendatory of the railroad supervision laws of this state, approved February 22, 1890 (Laws 1890, p. 106), is as follows :— “Every railroad company shall establish and maintain such depots as shall be reasonably necessary for the public convenience, and shall stop such of the passenger and freight trains at any depot as the business and public convenience shall require. And it shall be unlawful for any such company to abolish or disuse any depot when once established or to fail to keep up the same…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The evidence in the record before us does not bring this case within the terms of section 4, chapter 88, Laws of 1890. That section forbids the abolishment or disuse of any depot when once established, without’the consent of the railroad commission. The Vicksburg depot is not shown to have been either abolished or disused. The mere site of the station-house for passengers has been changed, or is threatened to be changed; but the change of the site of the station-house for passengers from one spot to another in the same town, for reasons of convenience, or business necessity, or public good,…
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