Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. v. Dacres
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Walla Walla County. The facts sufficiently appear in tbe opinion. The act relating to fencing of railroad tracks, approved November 28, 1883, is unconstitutional. If the purpose of a statute is to accomplish a single object only, and some of its provisions are void, the whole must fail unless sufficient remains to effect the object without the aid of the invalid portions. Cooley, Const.
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Appeal from District Court, Walla Walla County. The facts sufficiently appear in tbe opinion. The act relating to fencing of railroad tracks, approved November 28, 1883, is unconstitutional. If the purpose of a statute is to accomplish a single object only, and some of its provisions are void, the whole must fail unless sufficient remains to effect the object without the aid of the invalid portions. Cooley, Const. Lim. 178-9; Warren v. Charleston, 2 Gray, 84; Fisher v.McGirr, 1 Gray, 1; 61 Am. Dec. 381; Com. v. Hitchings, 5 Gray, 482; Fíate v. Ferry Coimty, 5 Ohio St. 497; Jones v. Robbins, 8…
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The opinion of tbe court was delivered by
Anders, C. J.
Tbis action was brought by appellee to recover tbe value of a bull alleged to have been killed by defendant’s train.
*198The complaint alleges “that at all the times hereinafter mentioned, the defendant was and is a corporation duly incorporated, and engaged in operating a line of railroad in "Washington Territory and elsewhere. That on the 3d day of May, 1883, and for a long time prior thereto, the plaintiff was the owner of, and in the possession of a certain farm situated-in sections 19 and 20, township 7 north, of range 38 east of the…
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