Bissell v. Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad Companies

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1860-09-05

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It was not strenuously insisted upon the argument that the acts of these two railroad companies in entering into the arrangement found by the referee, and in running their cars upon joint account through the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, were authorized by law; nor have I been able to find in the statutes of those States any sufficient warrant for these acts. I shall assume, therefore, that in undertaking to carry the plaintiff from Chicago, in the State of Illinois, to Toledo, in the…

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