...principles to the case in hand, the question presented is of easy solution. The petitioner's charter authorizes It to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad for public use from some point In the city of Burlington on or near the railroad of the Rutland Railroad Company to...

...confers on companies organized under its provisions the power "of constructing, maintaining and operating a railroad for public use in the conveyance of persons and property" between the places from and to which the road is to be constructed. The ninth section gives the power...

...less than twenty-five may form a company for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating a railroad for public use in the conveyance of persons and property. "SEC. 2. The persons forming such railroad company shall make and sign articles of association, in...

...Company was incorporated in Iowa "for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, maintaining and operating a railroad for public use In the conveyance of persons and property" _f rom Keokuk to St Louis, a distance of 165 miles. Section 3 of its articles of association is as...

...year 1877; that said company was formed for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating a railroad for public use in the conveyance of persons and property from the Troy and Greenfield railroad, and from the eastern boundary line of the State of New York,...

...the purpose of constructing, acquiring by purchase, or otherwise owning and operating and maintaining a railroad for public use in the conveyance of persons and property from a point on the St. Louis Southwestern Kailroad at or near Stamps, in Lafayette county, Ark., in...

...Railroad Company. The articles declared that the object of the association was to construct, mainlain and operate a railroad for public use in the conveyance of persons and property, from the City of Chillicothe, in the County of Livingston and State of Missouri, to such point on niwi...

...enactment of chapter 10, p. l(i, Laws I860, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a railroad for public use in the conveyance of persons and property in the streets of the city of New York, it is certain that after enactment a company could not be formed...

...called the "Fair Ground Railway Company", for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating a railroad for public use in the conveyance of persons and property in this State ; and further alleging that said proposed railroad is to be located as follows: Situated...

...Chillicothe & Omaha Railroad Company. The articles declared that tlie object of the association was to construct, maintain and operate a railroad for...public use in the conveyance of persons and property, from the City of Chillicothe, in the County of Livingston and State of Missouri, to such point on the...