St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. Mathews

Citations

• 165 U.S. 1
• 17 S. Ct. 243
• 41 L. Ed. 611
• 1897 U.S. LEXIS 1951

Syllabus

<p>A sta.tute of a Staté, which'enacts that every railroacl corporation, owning or operating a railroacl in the State, shall be responsible in damages to the owner of any property injured or destroyed by lire communicated, directly or indirectly, by locomotive engines in use upon, its railroad; and which provides that it shall have an insurable interest in the property upon the route of its railroad, and may procure insurance thereon in its own behalf; does not violate tiie Constitution of the United States, as depriving the railroad company of its property without due process of law, or as denying to it the equal protection Of the laws, or as impairing the obligation of the contract made between the State and the company by its incorporation-under general laws imposing no such liability.</p>