Northern Pacific Railway Company v. City of Duluth

How courts have described this case

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• construing “just and equitable” standard of section 219.40; affirming order requiring both city and railroad to pay one-half of bridge construction cost because substantial “benefits” occur to each; case arose before benefit standard became part of statute
• maxim not applicable if resulting construction is contrary to clear legislative intent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).