ECKINGTON AND SOLDIERS' HOME RAILWAY CO. v. McDEVITT
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. This was an action brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, August 8, 1894, to recover damages for alleged breach of contract.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. This was an action brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, August 8, 1894, to recover damages for alleged breach of contract. Plaintiff on April 4, 1889, being the owner of a tract of land in the District of Columbia, containing about twenty-two acres, (with her husband, since deceased,) entered into an agreement with the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home Railway Company, which recited: “Whereas the said parties of the first part, being desirous of securing an extension of the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home Railway from the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice Fuller,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court. . •
Assuming that the railway company might have lawfully ■ bound itself to construct and operate this piece of road, the question is presented to what compensation in damages plaintiff below would be entitled if the company found that the traffic did not justify its further, maintenance and ceased to run its cars, or if the public interests required such changes of ■' the lines of the road as rendered the abandonment necessary.-
Plaintiff had been reinstated in the possession of her'land, freed…
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