Legal Opinion
Peacock v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided December 23, 1919No. Docket No. 18PublishedCited by 24 opinions
Error to Shiawassee; Collins (Joseph H.), J. Case by Carrie E. Peacock, administratrix of the estate of Frank Peacock, deceased, and personally against the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Company for damage to fruit trees by fire. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtFellows, J.
By the act of August 29, 1916, entitled: “An act making appropriations for the support of the army for. the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,” the congress of the United States, among other things, enacted (39 U. S. Stat. p. 645) :
“The President, in time of war, is empowered, through the secretary of war, to take possession and assume control of any system or systems of transportation, or any part thereof, and to utilize the same, to the exclusion as far as may be necessary of all other traffic thereon, for the transfer or…
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