New Haven & Northampton Co. v. State
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Writ op Error to tliis court from a judgment of the Superior Court in issuing a peremptory mandamus. The proceeding upon which the mandamus was issued is fully stated in the report of the case of The State of Connecticut v. The New Haven f Northampton Company, 43 Conn.
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Writ op Error to tliis court from a judgment of the Superior Court in issuing a peremptory mandamus. The proceeding upon which the mandamus was issued is fully stated in the report of the case of The State of Connecticut v. The New Haven f Northampton Company, 43 Conn. R., 351. The case had been reserved by the Superior Court for the advice of this court, upon a demurrer to the return of the respondents, and this court had advised the Superior Court that the return was insufficient. The Superior Court thereupon rendered the following judgment in the case: “ It is ordered and adjudged that the…
1Opinion of the Court
Hovey, J.*
This case comes before us on a writ of error to reverse a judgment of the Superior Court for Hartford County. The proceedings below were by mandamus, to compel the plaintiffs in error, a railroad corporation created by the laws of this state, to perform a duty imposed upon them by an act of the General Assembly. The act referred to, which was passed upon the petition of Orson W. Stow and others, on the 15th of August, 1875, ordered and made it the duty of the plaintiffs in error, upon the performance by the petitioners of certain conditions, to stop their regular trains of cars at…
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