 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 662 pages
...that "the legislative act in scope and purpose concerns the protection of life ; " " that it was an exercise of the governmental power and duty to secure a safe highway." Whatever then would remove danger would promote that purpose. A surface track anywhere near a passenger... | |
 | Law - 1894 - 922 pages
...safety, and It is therefore within the exercise of the police power of the State and Is constitutional. The Legislature having determined that the Intersection of two railways with a highway In the olty of Hartford at grade crossing, Is a nuisance, dangerous to life, In the actiou, on the part, either... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1164 pages
...safe highways. The legislature, having determined that the intersection of a railway with any highway at grade is a nuisance dangerous to life, in the absence of action on the part of the municipality or of the i'ítilrortd may compel them to become the owner of the right to lay... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1132 pages
...above, it is said that " the act, in scope and purpose, concerns the protection of life;" that it was an "exercise of the governmental power and duty to secure a safe highway. " Whatever, then, would remove danger would promote that purpose. A surface track anywhere near a passenger... | |
 | Railroad law - 1887 - 764 pages
...c. McGowan, 62 Miss. 082. Grade Crossings — Power of Legislature to Regulate. — The Connecticut legislature having determined that the intersection...absence of action on the part either of the city or the railroad?, may compel them severally to bee* me the owners of the right to lay out new highways... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1272 pages
...the public at a grade crossing, which Is judicially recognized as a place of danger. It is, in short, the exercise of the governmental power and duty to secure a safe and necessary highway, and must be upheld, if at all, as a legitimate exercise of the police power... | |
 | Connecticut Railroad Commissioners - Railroads - 1891 - 552 pages
...that "the legislative act in scope and purpose concerns the protection of life "; " that it was an exercise of the governmental power and duty to secure a safe highway." Whatever then would remove danger would promote that purpose. A surface track anywhere near a passenger... | |
 | Connecticut Railroad Commissioners - Railroads - 1893 - 498 pages
...safe highways. The legislature having determined that the intersection of a railway with any highway at grade is a nuisance dangerous to life, in the absence of action on the part of the municipality or of the railroad may compel them to become the owner of the right to lay out... | |
 | Connecticut Railroad Commissioners - Railroads - 1894 - 440 pages
...fact does it increase or diminish the assets either of the city or the railroad corporations. It is the exercise of the governmental power and duty to...nuisance dangerous to life, in the absence of action on ths part either of the city or of the railroads, may compel them, severally, to become the owners of... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1895 - 1214 pages
...fact does it increase or diminish the assets either of the city or of the railroad corporations. It is constitutional requisition is satisfied. 2 Kent Comm. 13. And due process is so cit}' of Hartford at grade is a nuisance dangerous to life, in the absence of action on the part either... | |
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The legislature, having determined that the intersection of two railways with a highway in the city of Hartford at grade is a nuisance dangerous to life, in the absence of action on the part either of the city or of the railroads, may compel them, severally,... 
