Grand Trunk Railroad v. Richardson
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Vermont. This is an action by the defendants in error to recover damages for the destruction of their saw-mill, lumber-shed, store, boarding-house, manufactured lumber, and other personal property, by fire, alleged to have been communicated by a locomotive-engine' of the plaintiff in error on the seventh day of June. 1870. It was conceded on the trial that the railroad was duly laid out, located, and…
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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Vermont. This is an action by the defendants in error to recover damages for the destruction of their saw-mill, lumber-shed, store, boarding-house, manufactured lumber, and other personal property, by fire, alleged to have been communicated by a locomotive-engine' of the plaintiff in error on the seventh day of June. 1870. It was conceded on the trial that the railroad was duly laid out, located, and surveyed, six rods in width, under a charter granted by the legislature of the State of Vermont to another company; and that,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
The plaintiffs .Jrelow were permitted .to adduce evidence that those of the injured buildings which were within the lines of the roadway had been, erected within those lines by the license of the company, for the convenience of delivering and receiving freight. The admission of this evidence is the subject of the first assignment of error; and in its support it has been argued that it was the duty of the railroad company to preserve its entire roadway for the use for which it was-incorporated; that it had no authority to grant licenses to others to use any part thereof for the erection of.…
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- Samuel v. Grand Trunk Railway Co. of CanadaSupreme Court of Vermont · 1869
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