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N.Y., N.H. AND H. RAILROAD v. NEW YORK

No. 128.

165 U.S. 628 (1897)

NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD COMPANY v. NEW YORK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1897.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John M. Bowers for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Theodore E. Hancock, Attorney General of the State of New York, and Mr. W.H. Dennis for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

A statute of New York passed June 18, 1887, regulating the heating of steam passenger cars and directing guards and guard-posts to be placed on railroad bridges and trestles and the approaches thereto, Laws of N.Y. 1887, c. 616, p. 828, provides: "§ 1. It shall not be lawful for any steam railroad doing business in this State, after the first day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to heat its passenger...

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