Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1907 — May Get Lights At Crossings. [ARTICLE]

May Get Lights At Crossings.

The surpreme court has just affirmed a decision handed up from the lower court regarding the placing of electric lights at railroad crossings which is applicable to Bensselaer as well as to other towns. The case is that of the Pittspurg Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis Railroad company vs. the city of Hartford City. The points considered were: (1) An ordinance requiring a railroad to maintain at a street crossing an electric light of not greater power than other lights in the city, of sufficient power to light the entire crossing, and to keep it burning five minutes before the arrival of each and every engine or train at all times when there is no moon, or it is obscured, was rot an unreasonable exercise of the power conferred on the city by Section 6173, Barns 1901 (2) Such ordinance does not take the railroad property without compensation and doe process of law, nor constitute an interference with interstate commerce in excess of a valid police regulation to proctet travelers on the street. (3) The require meut that the light be “of sufficient power to light the entire crossing” is sufficiently definite as to the light required, etc, R. Co. vs town of Salem, 166 Ind., 71.