Pere Marquette Railway Co. v. Michigan Public Utilities Commission
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Ingham; Carr (Leland W.), J. Bill by the Pere Marquette Railway Company against the Michigan Public Utilities Commission and the Detroit United Railway, to set aside an order respecting certain crossings. From a decree for defendants, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWiest, J.
This suit involves the power of the Michigan public utilities commission to order a steam railroad company to bear one-half the expense of renewing and maintaining crossing frogs where its line is crossed in a public street by the lines of a street railway company. The steam railroad track was constructed across the street, at grade, in 1895, and soon thereafter the street railway company at its own expense, and without any public sanction, installed in the street a physical crossing of the steam railroad track and has since maintained the same. The . crossing frogs needing renewal, upon…
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- West Jersey & Seashore Railroad v. Atlantic City & Suburban Traction Co.New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1904
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