Great Northern Railway Co. v. Minnesota Ex Rel. Village of Clara City

Citations

• 246 U.S. 434
• 38 S. Ct. 346
• 62 L. Ed. 817
• 1918 U.S. LEXIS 1563

Syllabus

<p>Railroad companies may be required, under the state police power,' at their own’expense, to make streets and highways crossed by their tracks reasonably safe and convenient for public use. •</p> <p>Upon this principle, where a village street with business houses, on both sides was intersected by a railroad right of way of which the central portion only was occupied by roadbed and tracks and was sufficiently planked for crossing purposes, held, that, a requirement (under Minnesota Laws, 1913, c. 78, § 1) that a sidewalk be built to extend the street sidewalk across the right of way on either side of the planking, along one side of the street where people must frequently cross, could not be regarded as an arbitrary or unreasonable requirement depriving of due process or denying the equal protection of the laws.</p>