Montana Union Railway Co. v. Langlois
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from Second Judicial District, Silver Dow County. The cause was tried before De Wolfe, J, Tiie plaintiff contends that it is the owner in fee of its grounds and platforms; that it may regulate the use of the plat * form as it desires, provided the traveling public are not inconvenienced; that it may, if it wishes, engage in carrying passengers by hacks to and from its trains; that if it was so engaged in such business, it would have the right to its own property for…
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Appeal from Second Judicial District, Silver Dow County. The cause was tried before De Wolfe, J, Tiie plaintiff contends that it is the owner in fee of its grounds and platforms; that it may regulate the use of the plat * form as it desires, provided the traveling public are not inconvenienced; that it may, if it wishes, engage in carrying passengers by hacks to and from its trains; that if it was so engaged in such business, it would have the right to its own property for such purposes; that if it has such right, it can as well employ Lavells with twenty hacks to do such service, as to…
1Opinion of the CourtHarwood, J.
This is an action for an injunction. The complaint sets forth that the appellant is a railway corporation organized under the laws of the Territory of Montana; that it is the owner of, and operating as a common carrier, a line of railroad running from Garrison, in Deer Lodge County, and divers other stations, to its station known as South Butte, in Silver Bow County, Montana, the latter station being about one and one-half miles from the United States postoffice in the city of Butte, in said Silver Bow County; that at the said station"of South Butte the appellant is the owner of and in…
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