The Lawyers Reports Annotated Volume 19 PDF Download

Author: Burdett Alberto Rich
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230039749
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Languages : en
Pages : 1008

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...except for the times required by the ordinance at the passage of trains. the expense to the defendant would not exceed $10 per annum per light; that an incandescent light at each of said crossings will clearly illuminate the entire right of way at said points. and defendant can construct and maintain such lights at an expense to it of not exceeding $1 per month for each light; that, by reason of the premises, the ordinance is unreasonable and void in this: (1) The defendant cannot comply therewith without assuming greater burdens than the said town is allowed by law to put upon it. (2) It is the purpose of said town to require the defendant thereby to maintain three high-power lights, and burn them at all times, to relieve it of part of its burdens of street lighting. (3) The said ordinance upon its face. (4) The said town cannot the three named public streets; that it has' but two regular passenger trains and one freight train which pass through said town and across said streets in the nighttime, and no extra passenger and not exceeding two extra fI'I'l_'_"llt trains passing through: mi-l town after night; that, if defendant i is so indefinite and uncertain as to be void reads as follows: "The board of town require more of defendant than that it trustees shall have the following powers: railroad, upon which it runs trains in the light its right of way at said crossings, while there is danger from a train that is about to use it, and the said ordinance requiring high-power lights is therefore void. (5) The act of the general assembly, in so far as it empowers towns to pass ordinances requiring lights at railway and street crossings at the sole expense of the railroad company, violates the 14th Amendment...