Illinois Central Railroad v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Alexander county; the Hon. A. K. Vichees, Judge, presiding. This is a petition for a mandamus, filed on April 17,1891, in the Circuit Court of Alexander County in the name of the People by the State’s Attorney of that County, against the Illinois Central Eailroad Company to compel that company to cause all of its regular passenger trains coming into the city of Cairo to be brought down to the passenger station at the intersection of Second…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Alexander county; the Hon. A. K. Vichees, Judge, presiding. This is a petition for a mandamus, filed on April 17,1891, in the Circuit Court of Alexander County in the name of the People by the State’s Attorney of that County, against the Illinois Central Eailroad Company to compel that company to cause all of its regular passenger trains coming into the city of Cairo to be brought down to the passenger station at the intersection of Second and Ohio Levee streets in that city, and there stopped a sufficient lengtEof time to receive and let off passengers with…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magrudee
1. One of the defenses made by the respondent below, and the disallowance of which is here assigned as error, was, that section 88 of chapter 114 of the Revised Statutes, being section 25 of the Act of 1874 in relation to fencing and operating railroads as amended in 1879, did not pass the lower house of the legislature and never became a law.
Section 25 of “An Act in relation to fencing and operating railroads,” approved March 31, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, read as follows : “Every railroad corporation shall cause its passenger trains to stop, upon the arrival at each station advertised by…
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