Doolittle v. Selectmen of Branford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application by the state’s attorney for the county of New Haven to the Superior Court in that county, for a writ of mandamus to compel the selectmen of the town of Bran-ford to make certain alterations in certain highways of the town that had been ordered by the railroad commissioners for the purpose of removing grade-crossings. The case was heard, upon the defendants’ return to the alternative writ, before Robinson, J., and a peremptory mandamus issued.
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Application by the state’s attorney for the county of New Haven to the Superior Court in that county, for a writ of mandamus to compel the selectmen of the town of Bran-ford to make certain alterations in certain highways of the town that had been ordered by the railroad commissioners for the purpose of removing grade-crossings. The case was heard, upon the defendants’ return to the alternative writ, before Robinson, J., and a peremptory mandamus issued. The defendants appealed. The ease is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
For fully twenty years the legislature of this state has been devising laws to prevent the destruction of human life at railroad crossings of highways. Disasters, frequent and sometimes appalling, have been happening at such crossings ever since railroads have been built, and the legislature has been seeking from time to time to frame enactments by which they should be avoided. These acts appear in the Public Acts of 1870, ch. 125, Acts of 1873, ch. 67 ; Acts of 1876, ch. 36 ; Acts of 1877, ch. 8; Acts of 1883, ch. 107; and Acts of 1884, ch. 100. The act of 1884 intended to make provision for…
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