Donovan v. Pennsylvania Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. This suit involves some questions as to the relative rights of the parties in the use of a railroad passenger station and depot grounds, and in the use of the public sidewalk and street adjacent to such station and grounds.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. This suit involves some questions as to the relative rights of the parties in the use of a railroad passenger station and depot grounds, and in the use of the public sidewalk and street adjacent to such station and grounds. The facts out of which the controversy has arisen are clearly established, and may thus be summarized: By a lease executed in 1871 the Pennsylvania Company, a corporation of Pennsylvania engaged in transporting passengers and freight by railroad, acquired the possession and control of the Pittsburg, Fort…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
As this case is before us on writ of certiorari, we can dispose of all questions arising on the record.
Upon the pleadings two principal inquiries arise: First, whether the Pennsylvania Company having made an arrangement with the Parmelee Transfer. Company to furnish at its passenger station, from time to time, all vehicles necessary for the accommodation of passengers arriving there on its trains or on the trains of other railroad companies may legally exclude from its depot grounds or passenger station all hackmen or expressmen coming to either for the purpose only of soliciting for…
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