PEARSALL v. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY

No. 768.

161 U.S. 646 (1896)

PEARSALL v. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 30, 1896.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry J. Horn for appellant.

Mr. H.W. Childs, Attorney General of the State of Minnesota, for that State.

Mr. M.D. Grover, Mr. Cushman K. Davis, Mr. F.B. Kellogg, and Mr. C.A. Severance for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

This case turns upon the question whether the right given by its charter to the Minneapolis and St. Cloud Railroad Company to connect with any railroad running in the same general direction, and, by a subsequent amendatory act, to consolidate its capital stock, or its property, road or franchise with those of any other railroad, could be taken...

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