The State of Maryland v. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “[the legislature] had unquestionably the power to change its policy, and allow the company to pursue a different course, and to release it from its obligations both as to the direction of the road and the payment of the money. For, in doing this, it was dealing altogether with matters of public concern, and interfered with no private right; for neither the commissioners, nor the county, nor any one of its citizens, had acquired any separate or private interests which could be maintained in a court of justice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Toledo City School Dist. Bd. of Edn. v. State Bd. of Edn. (Slip Opinion)