The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04
Railway Hearing.
The following is the full text of the courts
decision in the case to which it relates:
SPECIAL TERM OF SUPREME COURT, |

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SPECIAL TERM OF SUPREME COURT,
- JUNE %, 1888.
Central Vermont Railroad Company, Receiver
and Manager. ct al, Petitioners, vs. The
Montpelier & Wells Riuer Railroad Company,
Petitionee:
That part of the award made by the COM
missoners in above entitled cause, filed June
Dist 1883. which awards that the petitionee
shall receive the parlor and baggage cars with
their passengers on through tickets and bag
gage on through checks, from said Montreal
and Saratoga express trains at Montpelier. and
transport the same over its road to Wells River
in not exceeding one hour and thirty-five min
ntes, and after the return OF the same from the
White Mountains to Wells River, in like man
ner receive and transport the same to Mont
pelier. in the same time, so as to connect with
the petitioners express trains going westward
over its road, and that the petitioners trains
shall make close connections with those of the
petitioner going east and west from Mont
pelier and that the petitionee shall receive a
pro rata share of the earnings of said lines,
provided that If the petitionee shall be COM
PEELED to run an extra train in connection with
said lines. the petitioner shall pay the petit
tiOnee such sum in addition to its pro rata share
OF earnings as shall be required to save the pc
titionee from loss in consequence of running
such extra trains This arrangement shall
commence on the second day of July and con-
time until the twentieth day of September in
each year while this award shall remain in
force And those parts of the supplemental
award, made by the commissioners and filed in
the cause, that award thatthe parties shall re-
spectively receive their local rates instead of a
pro rata division for the transportation of
freight, and that the petitionee shall at all
times, while the award is in force receive from
the petitioners road passengers with through
tickets. with their baggage on through checks,
is confirmed and Judgment rendered thereon,
with the following qualifications and upon the
following conditions: The petitionee. instead of
being limited to pro rata share Of the earn
ings of said lines, shall be entitled to be paid
at the rate of not less than one and fifty hun
dredths dollars for each and every passenger
that 1t may 80 transport over its road and
monthly settlements shall be made by the par
ties, and any sum that may be found due the
petitionee upon such settlements shall then be
paid by the petitioner to the petitionee. This
arrangement shall commence on the eighth day
of July for the year 1883, instead of the second,
as fixed by the award And before the petit
tionee shall be required to run any extra
trains to transport such cars, the petitioner shall
execute a bond in the penal sum of $4,000, to
be approved by the county clerk OF Washington
county and deposit the same with him for the
benefit Of the petitionee conditioned that the
petitioner will pay the petitionee all loss and
damage that it may sustain in consequence OF
running such extra trains, except such as may
result from the fault or negligence of the peti
tionee. The costs of the proceeding, including
the fees Of the commissioners and the compensa-
ton Of the Judges to be paid one-half by the
petitioner and one-half by the petitionee. Nc
witness or attorney fees before commissioner:
to be taxed.
HOMER E. ROYCE, for the Court.