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To the same effect are United States v. Freight Association, 166 U. S. 290, 166 U. S. 332; Smyth v. Ames, 169 U. S. 466, 169 U. S. 544; Lake Shore &c. Ry. Co. v. Ohio, 173 U. S. 285, 173 U. S. 301. Necessarily, the same principles apply in reference to the use of the company's stationhouse and depot grounds, for they are held in the same right as are its road, its locomotives, and other property or appliances employed in the transportation of passengers and freight, and must be devoted primarily to public use to the extent necessary for the public objects intended to be accomplished by the construction and maintenance of the railroad as a highway.
"The authorities cited in support of this contention have no application to such a contract as the one before us. The defendant was under a duty arising from the public nature of its employment to furnish for the use of passengers on its lines such accommodations as were reasonably required by the existing conditions of passenger traffic. Its duty as a carrier of passengers was to make suitable provisions for their comfort and safety. Instead of furnishing its own drawing room and sleeping cars, as it might have done, it employed the plaintiff, whose special business was to provide cars of that character, to supply as many as were necessary to meet the requirements of travel. It thus used the instrumentality of another corporation in order that it might properly discharge its duty to the public. So long as the defendant's lines were supplied with the requisite number of drawing room and sleeping cars, it was a matter of indifference to the public who owned them. Express Cases, 117 U. S. 1."
Lewis on Eminent Domain, 2d ed., § 91f, and authorities cited in notes. See also Newell v. Sass, 142 Ill. 104.
* Jencks v. Coleman, 2 Sumn. 221; Barney v. The Martin, 11 Blatchf. 233; Commonwealth v. Power, 7 Met. 596; Barney v. Oyster Bay Steamboat Co., 67 N.Y. 301; Old Colony R. Co. v. Tripp, 147 Mass. 35; Commonwealth v. Carey, 147 Mass. 40, note; State v. Depot Co., 71 Ohio St. 379; Norfolk & Western Ry. Co. v. Old Dominion Baggage Co., 99 Va. 111; Fluker v. Georgia Railroad Co., 81 Ga. 461; Griswold v. Webb, 16 R.I. 649; Summitt v. State, 76 Tenn. 413; New York &c. R. Co. v. Scovill, 71 Conn. 136; Kates v. Cab. Co., 107 Ga. 636; Godbout v. St. Paul Union Depot, 79 Minn. 188; Boston & Albany R. Co. v. Brown, 177 Mass. 65; Boston & Maine R. Co. v. Sullivan, 177 Mass. 230; New York &c. R. Co. v. Bork, 23 R.I. 218; St. Louis Drayage Co. v. Louisville &c. R. Co., 65 F. 39; Hedding v. Gallagher, 72 N.H. 377.

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