Pratt v. James

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• the court compared the right of the legislature to franchise a private corporation to acquire private property to construct and operate a railroad to the right it had been granting for years to private corporations to acquire property to operate public highways
• the court compared the right of the legislature to franchise a private corporation to acquire private property to construct and operate a railroad to the right it had been granting for years to private corporations to acquire property to operate public highways

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).