People Ex Rel. Attorney-General v. New York, Lake Erie & Western R. R.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the supreme court, general term, Fifth Department, affirming an order of the Erie county special Term, directing a peremptory writ of mandamus directing the defendant to erect a certain station-house. The facts and questions raised are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDanforth, J.
Upon motion, on notice by the attorney-general, for a mandamus requiring the defendant to construct<and maintain, on the line of its road at the village of Hamburg, a building of sufficient capacity to accommodate its passengers arriving at that place, or departing therefrom, or in waiting to depart, and such freight as is usually received at or shipped from that point, it appeared that the village of Hamburgh contains 1,200 inhabitants, and furnishes to the defendant, at a station established by it, a large freight and passenger business ; that its depot building is entirely inadequate for…
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- People Ex Rel. Green v. Dutchess & Columbia RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1874
- People Ex Rel. Kimball v. . B. and A.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1877
- Peo. Ex Rel. Garbutt v. . R. and S.L.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1879
- Coogan v. Aeolian Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1913
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