People ex rel. Cantrell v. St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Franklin county; the Hoh. A. K. Vickers, Judge, presiding. This is a petition for a writ of mandamus in its amended form, presented in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, at the relation of William S. Cantrell, a citizen and property owner of Benton, Franklin county, Illinois, as a patron of the defendant railroad company, the prayer of which petition is as follows: “That a writ of mandamus be issued, directed to the St. Louis,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Franklin county; the Hoh. A. K. Vickers, Judge, presiding. This is a petition for a writ of mandamus in its amended form, presented in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, at the relation of William S. Cantrell, a citizen and property owner of Benton, Franklin county, Illinois, as a patron of the defendant railroad company, the prayer of which petition is as follows: “That a writ of mandamus be issued, directed to the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company, commanding it to cause to be furnished, placed, run and operated on said railroad…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The main question in this case is, whether a railroad company can be compelled by mandamus to run a passenger train. The appellee operates about fifty miles of railroad running from DuQuoin easterly to Eldorado, which it leased in 1880 for 985 years from the Belleville and Eldorado Railroad Company; and it is conceded, that it runs no passenger train, that is, no train for passenger service exclusively, over this distance of fifty miles between DuQuoin and Eldorado. On Sunday and Monday evenings a train, consisting of a baggage car and one passenger coach, runs from DuQuoin easterly to Benton…
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- Railroad Commissioners v. Portland & Oxford Central RailroadSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1872
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