The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-04-10

Cases euch companies or po6Do0o, ah1ll pFo-
vide and maintain at or near the place OF
crossing, convenienoes for the transfer Of
freights from one road to the other
and all such companies and per-
sons, operating any railroad shall receive for
shipment and forward as directed with all con-
venlent dispatch, all transportabls articles Of
freight which are commonly transported by
ran, offered to them for shipment, and deliver
the same to censignee or the next connecting
carrier, as the case may be; and for the pur-
pose of facilitating the transportation of
freights. every railroad company or other
person operating any railroad Within
this State are hereby required 70 recefye at
functions and places OF crossing other roads Of
thu same gauge loaded or empty cars and for
ward them without delay to their destination
advance payment of freights shall not be TO
CURED as condition precedent to car
articles, and freights of little value.
Any individual. lessee, company or cor
poration, violating. or in any manner eyad-
ing the provisions, or either of the provisions,
OF this section, shall forfeit all right to re-
cover or receive any compensation for the scr-
vice rendered, wherein such violation is at
tempted or accomplished, and every agent,
clerk or employee of any such corporation,
company, lessee, or other individual, oper-
ating any such railroad or part of railroad
who shall refuse or neglect, when requested to
reeceiv for transportation over the road for
which he may be acting, or to forward In the
usual manner, any of the articles or freights
mentioned in this chapter. on account of the
charges or rates not being paid in advance, or
on account of the same having to pass from
one railroad to another. shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor. and on conviction thereof
shall pay fine not exceeding two hundred doh
lars for each and every such offense, and the
injured party shall have a right Of action
against such agent, clerk or employee, or
against the said company, corporation or lndf
vl.ual owning, operating or managing said
road, or both, IN which action the said injured
party shall be entitled to recover treble the
amount of all damages which he shall sustain
by reason of any such neglect, refusal or eva
sicC.
Section S. Said chapter 273 is further
amended by adding thereto the following, TO be
known as section 20. Wheresoever two or
more railroads approach, connect with or cross
each other at a point, or points. of general
travel in this state, it shall be the duty of the
companies or individuals operating saca roads
to make close running connections at such
points, as to accommodate the travelling pub
lie, and in case they fail to do 80, the said rail-
road commissioners shall examine into the
matter, and. if they shall think proper, give
notice 70 such companies to present to said
commissioners the reasons for not making
such running connections, and If no good and
sufficient reasons, satisfactory to said commits
sioners, shall be given for failing to make
SuCn CODD6CUlOlls, III bIldll DO Iue Quty Ol buCn
commissioners, or ma jority Of them to order
such connections to be made as in their judg
ment shall be just, and such as shall accom-
modate the travelling public; and shall cause
copy Of such order to be served on each Of
said companies. and If the said companies or
individuals operating said roads, or either OF
them, shall neglect or refuse to comply with
such order for more than enc week after the
service thereof. the company or individual so
neglectlng or refusing to comply with said or
der shall be deemed guilty of msdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof before any court of
competent jurisdiction shall be subject to a
fine of one hundred dollars for each and every
day they shall 80 neglect or refuse.
Section 6. Section 10, of chapter 273, afore
said, shall hereafter be known and designated
as section 81. of this chapter.
Section 7. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after it's passage and publIca-
ton; Provided That no offense committed and
no penalty, forfeiture or damages received lin
Cured or sustained, and no action or right of
ton which has already accrued shall be affected
y the provisions of this act. and no prosecution
for any offense or the recovery of any penalty,
forfeiture or damages, or the enforcement OF
any right now pending shall be affected by the
provisions of this act. but the same shall pro-
coed to trial, hearing and final judgment in
the same manner, and to the same purpose
and effect, as though the statute upon which
the same is or shall be founded vas contained
Continued in full force, virtue ADD effect to
the time of such trial, hearing and lnal judg-
ment.
Approved March 5, 1875.
Published March IL, 1851
CHATTER oil.
AN ACT for the relief of joint stock companies.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows
Section /. All joint stock companies heretofore
and prior to the first day of January 1878. organ
lied and by virtue of the provisions Of chapter 70,
of the revised statutes, entitled "Of JOINT stock
companies shall be deemed to have been legally
organized, to all intents and purposes the same as
if said chapter 73 had not been repealed.
Sec > The certificate of the secretary of state
that the certificate required to be deposited With
him by the provisions of section II. of said chap
ter 70, has been duly deposited with him, shall be
prima facie evidence in any suit proceeding
against any such joint stock company Of the valid
ity Of its organization.
Sec. 8. This &C. stall be in TO from and after
its passage and publication.
Approved March 4, 1879.
Published March IL, 1881
CHAPTER 28.
Az Acr In relation to the Wisconsin Railroad Farm
Mortgage Land Company.
The people of the state Of Wisconsin, represente6
in Senate and Assembly, do enact follows:
Section 1. Commissioners of the Wisconsin Rail-
road Farm Mortgage Land Company snail be and
hereby required to furnish list Of all lands
held by them in each county In this state, describ
ing each piece by forty lots, or fractional
parts thereof, and designating, by description,
what lands have been disposed of during the year
1874, to tie county clerk of each county in which
such lands located, before the first day of
April, 1875.
Sec Q. Said commissioners shall annually hero
AFTER report to each county clerk of the county In
which such lands located, what part II any, OF
said lands have been d. describing the same, up
to the first day of april IN each year.
Sec. 8. This act shall rake effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March 4, 1875
Published March 1,1s75.l
CHAPTER 189.
AN A, t to amend chapter one hundred and thirty
three Q33), of the revised statutes, entitled 'Of
costs and fees"
Tie people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
i'll Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section /. Whenever the party IN whose favor
judgment is rendered in Justice court shall appeal
from such Judgment to the circuit court, and new
trial shall be had in the circuit court, If the party
appealing shall not recover q more favorable judg-
ment than the Judgment appealed from, he shall
not recover costs but shall pay toss to the adverse
party provided that the provisions of this act shall
apply only to appeals hereafter taken
Sec 2. This shall take effect and be In force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March 4, 1875.
Published March IL, 1851
CHAPTER 207.
relating to sidetracks to railroads IN CO rtaiD
cases.
The people Of the State Of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate and Assembly. do enact as follows:
Section l. whenever any town, by a iority of
its electors voting thereon, SHALL its corporate
cauacity, refuse TO aid any railroad company n
building depot in such town, 1t shall De lawful
for any person who shall build warehouse IL such
town for the purpose CT doing a storage, forward
his warehouse, a railroad track and connect the
same by switch at bis expense, and Ii shall be