Long Island Railroad v. Department of Labor

The State has determined that dangerous railway crossings at grade should be eliminated from the highways of the State. To promote that work the People of the State have adopted a new section of the Constitution which permits legislative authorization of a debt or debts of the State not exceeding in the aggregate three hundred million dollars “ to provide moneys for the elimination, under State supervision, of railroad crossings at grade within the State, at the expense of the State, railroad companies, counties and cities, as- hereinafter provided. Of the expense of a grade crossing elimi…