Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Denver & R. G. R.’s Empirical Analysis
45 F. 304 · 1891
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cited by 1 later decisions
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cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
March 1892
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“an amount equal to a proportionate share of the expenses actually incurred in paying proper salaries to the general superintendent and subordinate employes, including switchmen, telegraph operators,' train dispatchers and others necessarily employed in the performance of the duties incident to the joint use and occupation of said railway, not including train men, which proportion shall be ascertained in the manner . . . above set out.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to transport persons and property between stations on its railway and connecting lines, and all points between and including Denver and South Pueblo: Provided, however, that if the Chicago Company shall at any time acquire by purchase, construction or otherwise, a railway extending not less than fifty miles from Pueblo, it shall have the right to transport persons and property- between any point on such line and Denver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the interest of both parties and of the public will be promoted by the establishment and operation of a through line of railway between all the points on the line of the railway of the Denver Company, between and including Denver and South Pueblo, and all points on the line of railway which will be operated by-the Chicago Company, and on the system of railways of which the Chicago Company will form a part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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