...Legislature may authorize a private corporation to take land for the construction of such a roail, making compensation to the owner. What else does this...private corporation, is an act done for a public use? And the reason why the use has always bcuu held a public one is that such a road is a highway, whether...

...doctrine universally accepted that a state legislature may authorize a private corporation to take land for the construction of such a road, making compensation...private corporation, is an act done for a public use, and the reason why the use has always been held a public one, is that such a road is a highway, whether...

...reference solely to the function contemplated. A decision of the United States Supremo Court declares that "building a railroad, though it be built by a...private corporation, is an act done for a public use," and again " in their very nature railroads are public highways." Chief Justice Shaw, of Massachusetts,...

...to take the land for such a road, making compensation to the owner. What else this doctrine means, if not that building a railroad, though it be built by a private corporation, is an act done for the public use, and the reason why the use has always been held a public one is, that such a road is...

...doctrine universally accepted that a State legislature may authorize a private corporation to take land for the construction of such a road, making compensation to the owner. "'What else does this doctrine amount to if not that building a railroad, though it be built by a private corporation, is an act done...

...doctrine universally accepted that a state legislature may authorize a private corporation to take land for the construction of such a road, making compensation...private corporation, is an act done for a public use?" So, in Township of Pine Grove v. Talcoit, 19 Wall. 666, 676: "Though"the corporation [a railroad company]...

...doctrine universally accepted that a state legislature may authorize a private corporation to take land for the construction of such a road, making compensation...private corporation, is an act done for a public use? And the reason why the use has always been held a public one, is that such a road is a highway, whether...

...doctrine universally accepted that a state legislature may authorize a private corporation to take land for the construction of such a road, making compensation...private corporation, is an act done for a public use ? And the reason why the use has always been held a public one, is that such a rqad is a highway, whether...

...doctrine universally accepted that a state legislature may authorize a private corporation to take land for the construction of such a road, making compensation...built by a private corporation, is an act done for the public use ? And the reason why the use has always been held a public use, is that such a road...

...doctrine universally accepted that a state legislature may authorize a private corporation to take land for the construction of such a road, making compensation...built by a private corporation, is an act done for the public use? And the reason why the use has always been held a public use. is that such a road is...