Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1916 — Indiana Headlight Law Has Been Held Valid. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Headlight Law Has Been Held Valid.

Washington, D. C., Dec. 12.—The validity of the Indiana headlight law was upheld yesterday by a decision handed down by the supreme court of the United States. The court affirmed the decision of the Indiana supreme court and of the Marion county superior court, both of which had held the law valid. The headlight law passed by the legislature of 1909 authorized the railroad commission to issue an order directing the railroads doing business in Indiana to equip their locomotives with electric not less than 1,500 can^u#«*e ; Vihe r nNtif aS order to this efrect. In 1910 the Vandalia railroad began an action in Marion county seeking to overthrow the statute and the order as invalid and unconstitutional.