Shackley v. Eastern Railroad

By the first section of the St. of 1852, c. 305, under which, as the petitioners allege, the respondents became the owners of the South Reading Branch Railroad, the respondents were required to run one freight train and four passenger trains daily, Sundays excepted, each way over that road, “ so as to furnish reasonable accommodation to the public generally and the business along the line of said road.” The petitioners, describing themselves as “ persons interested in the transportation of freight” over this railroad, allege that, notwithstanding that public necessity and convenience require…