Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Puget Sound & Willapa Harbor Railway Co.

Citations

• 250 U.S. 332
• 39 S. Ct. 474
• 63 L. Ed. 1013
• 1919 U.S. LEXIS 1752

Syllabus

<p>A railroad company by constructing its road gains no vested right to the retention of a general rule of .law, then in existence, laying the expense of installing and maintaining required safety devices, where one railroad exercises its right to cross another, upon the company making the crossing; and it is not deprived of its property without due process by a change of the Tule under which it is required to share • such expense equally with k junior company. P. 335.</p>