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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A state statute provided that, locomotive engine of any railroad corporation, the said corporation shall be responsible in damages for such injury," and have an insurable interest in such property along its route. It was held that the phrase " along its route " meant in proximity to the rails upon which the locomotive engines run; and that the corporation was liable for such an injury to buildings or other property near its road-bed, whether they were outside of the lines of its road-way or lawfully within those lines.
Grand Trunk R. K. Co. V. Richardson, 91 U. A'. 454.
Power, given in a railroad charter to change the route or location of a road, does not include power to change the termini.
Attorney-Gen. V. West. Wis. R. Co., 36 Wis. 466.