Railroad Commissioners v. Railroad Co.

Citations

• 26 S.C. 353
• 2 S.E. 127
• 1887 S.C. LEXIS 45

Syllabus

<p>1. For a failure by a railroad company to adopt the suggestions of the railroad commissioners as to improvements in station houses, under section 1457 of the General Statutes, no penalties are prescribed, and no mode of enforcement provided. Therefore no right of action is given to the railroad commissioners against the railroad company for such their failure, but the remedy is an action by the State, to be brought by the attorney general upon the request of the railroad commissioners, to recover the penalty provided in section 1539.</p> <p>2. Whether the railroad commissioners have the power to require a railroad company to establish and maintain a station house to be placed under a competent agent, raised but not determined.</p>