Southern Railway Co. v. City of Winston-Salem

Appellant railway attacks the allocation of the cost of erecting and maintaining the required signal devices at the two grade crossings of its tracks by City streets made by the two ordinances here in question as an arbitrary and unreasonable exercise of its police powers by the defendant City under all existing conditions and circumstances, thereby violating the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 17, of the North Carolina Constitution. The standard by which a valid exercise of the police power is to be tested has been stated by the North Carolina…