Dewey v. Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by Charles Dewey and others on behalf of themselves and other citizens of Goldsboro against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and others, heard by Judge James L. We&6 at the August Term, 1906, of the Superior Court of WayNE, upon a motion to dissolve a restraining order theretofore issued.
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ActioN by Charles Dewey and others on behalf of themselves and other citizens of Goldsboro against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and others, heard by Judge James L. We&6 at the August Term, 1906, of the Superior Court of WayNE, upon a motion to dissolve a restraining order theretofore issued. Defendants, the Atlantic Coast Line, Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, and Southern Railway, intending to carry out an order of the Corporation Commission, directing that they establish and maintain a union passenger depot at the terminus of Walnut Street about 210 feet from the western boundary…
1Opinion of the Court
Hoke, J.,
after stating the case: The Revisal of 1905, sec. 1097, subsec. 3, empowers and directs the Corporation Commission to require, when practicable, and when the necessities of the case, in the judgment of the Commission, demand it, any two or more railroads which now or hereáfter may *399enter any city or town to bave one common or union passenger depot for tbe security, convenience and accommodation of tbe traveling public, and to unite in tbe joint expense of erecting, constructing and maintaining said union passenger depot, etc., etc.
Another clause of said section confers on tbe…
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