Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1896 — CITIES MUST HIRE WATCHMEN. [ARTICLE]

CITIES MUST HIRE WATCHMEN.

Decision by Indiana Supreme Court ns to Railway Street Crossings. The “ Indiana Supreme Court, by deciding that an Incorporated town or city has not the power, by ordinance,, to compel a railroad company to keep a watchman and erect gates at its own expense at points where traekscrosa a street, upset a local fiuTfee regulation that has been exercised in nearly every town and city in the State for, many years. Tho .case in- which the decision is announced came from Crown Point, where the Pennsylvania Company refused to obey the ordinance. Judge Monks, who wrote the decision, holds that the and gates, if maintained, must be paid for by tho towns and cities. He maintain* that a railrpad company in crossing a stteet i» on an equality with a citizen.