Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. v. City of Crawfordsville

Suit by appellee to recover a penalty for the violation of a city ordinance requiring the lighting of street intersections.

*72The act of March 4, 1893 (Acts 1893, p. 302, §5173 Burns 1901), grants to cities, for the security and safety of persons from running trains, the power to require, by ordinance, railroad companies to maintain, at the points where the railroad track crosses the streets of the city, the same kind of lights maintained by the city, on all nights that the common council may direct. The above act effects a delegation of police power to cities, and the power granted is limited…