Vandalia Railroad v. Indiana Ex Rel. City of South Bend

This action was commenced by the defendant in error in the Circuit Court of St. Joseph County, Indiana, to compel the Terre Haute and Logansport Railway .Company to open its tracks and yards within Calvert street in South 'Bend, -to make the roadbed conform to the street grade, to plank the crossing, of the same, and to make that crossing safe and convenient for the passage of persons and vehicles.. While the action was pending in the state courts the Terre Haute company pnd certain other companies consolidated and formed a new corporation under the name of the Vandalia Railroad Company,…