Sayers v. Montpelier & Wells River Railroad
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery. Heard on the pleadings and a master’s report at the June Term, 1915, Orange County, Slack, Chancellor. Decree, strictly pro forma, dismissing the bill with costs to defendant. The plaintiff appealed. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
This proceeding grows out of the elimination of two grade crossings on the line of the Montpelier and Wells *204River Railroad in the town of Newbury. Pursuant to the statute, defendant preferred its petition to the Public Service Commission praying that the crossings be eliminated; and such proceedings were had thereon that, on Oct. 7, 1912, the commission, having found that said crossings were among the most dangerous on the line of defendant’s road and that public safety required that they be eliminated by the construction of a connecting section of public highway in the manner and locality…
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