A Digest Of Railway Decisions PDF Download

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. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...115 Ind. 64, 4 N. E. Rep. 589, 17 N. E. Rep. 855. Where a township votes bonds in aid of a railroad to be built between designated points, and the statute limits the amount to $4000 per mile of track laid, the company is entitled to bonds, not to exceed the statutory limit for all the main line and side tracks built which are necessary for the efficient operation of the railroad between the points designated. Atofizson, C. (S-'P. Ii'. Co. v. Plzillzps County Com'rs, 4 Am. 6 Eng. R. Cas. 326, 25 Kan. 261. A proposition by a railroad company that a county make a subscription to its capital stock, to be paid by conveying to the company all the lands which the county owned and which were not occupied for public purposes when the proposition should be accepted, and by transferring all the tax certificates which the county then owned and which should come to its possession before the completion of the road, is sufl'iciently definite as to the property and its value, though no lands or tax certificates are specifically described. Hall v. Baker, 74 H/2's. 118, 42 N. W. Rep. 104. A by-law to take stock in the Bytown & P. R. was quashed: (1) because it ap peared not to have been concurred in by a majority of the assessed inhabitants, as required by 13 & 14 Vict. c. 132; (2) because no sufficient rate was imposed for the payment of the debt and interest, as required by 12 Vict. c. 81. In re Bz'llz'ng's, to U. C. Q. B. 273. The defendants did not support their bylaw, and the court refused to hear counsel on behalf of the railway company, as the rule was not directed to them. In re Billings, ro U. C. Q. B. 273. Under the charter of a railroad company which authorized counties to subscribe for stock. and provided that the company...