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- Title: Railroad Company v. Richmond
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1877
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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Mr. Conway Robinson and Mr. Leigh Robinson for the plaintiff in error. 1. The ordinance of the city council of Richmond, prohibiting the use of locomotive engines on the railroad of the plaintiff in error on Broad Street impairs the obligation of the contract contained in the charter of the company granted by the legislature of the State of Virginia. Cooley, Const. Lim. 87, 88, 274, 279; People v. Draper, 15 N. Y. 532; Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 519; Planters' Bank v. Sharp, 6 How. 301; Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch, 87; Terrett v. Taylor, 9 id. 43; New Jersey v. Wilson, 7 id. 164; Gordon & Chester v. Appeal Tax Court, 3 How. 133; State Bank of Ohio v. Knoop, 16 id. 369; City of Richmond v. Richmond & Danville Railroad Co., 21 Gratt. (Va.) 604; State v. Noyes, 47 Me. 189; O'Connor v. Pittsburgh, 18 Pa. St. 187; James River & Kanawha Canal Co. v. Anderson et al., 12 Leigh (Va.), 278; McLauchlin v. Railroad Co., 5 Rich. (S. C.) 596; Hammersmith & City Railway Co. v. Brand, 4 Law Rep. H. L. 738; Enfield Tollbridge Co. v. Hartford & New Haven Railroad Co., 17 Conn. 454; Black v. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co., 58 Pa. St. 249; Vaughan v. Taff Vale Railway Co., 5 H. & N. 678; Mercer v. Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, & Chicago Railroad Co., and Commonwealth v. Same, 36 Pa. St. 99; New Jersey Railroad & Transportation Co. v. Jersey City, 29 N. J. L. 170.