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GULF, COLORADO & c. RY. v. TEXAS

No. 158.

246 U.S. 58 (1918)

38 S.Ct. 236

62 L.Ed. 574

GULF, COLORADO & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF TEXAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 4, 1918.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Gardiner Lathrop, with whom Mr. J.W. Terry, Mr. A.H. Culwell and Mr. Robert Dunlap were on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. B.F. Looney, Attorney General of the State of Texas, and Mr. Luther Nickels, Assistant Attorney General of the State of Texas, for defendant in error, submitted.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit by the State to compel the defendant railroad, the plaintiff in error, to stop two interstate trains, one numbered 17 and southbound, the other numbered 18 and northbound, at the City of Meridian, for a time sufficient to receive and let off passengers. Meridian is the County Seat of Bosque County and has a population of 1500. Two other trains of the defendant going each way stopped there daily...

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