Horace Gray, Gladson v. Minnesota — Opinion of the Court
“ A railroad corporation created by a state is, for all purposes of local government, a domestic corporation, and its railroad within the state is a matter of domestic concern. Even when its road connects, as most railroads do, with railroads in other states, the state which created the corporation may make all needful regulations of a police character for the government of the company while operating its road in that jurisdiction. ”
Horace Gray, Gladson v. Minnesota — Opinion of the Court
“ To require every regular passenger train running wholly within the limits of the state to stop at all stations at county seats directly in its course, for the few minutes and at the trifling expense needed to take on and discharge passengers with safety, is a reasonable exercise of the police power of the state, and cannot be considered a taking of property of the company without due process of law, nor an unconstitutional interference with interstate commerce or with the transportation of the mails of the United States. ”
Horace Gray, Gladson v. Minnesota — Opinion of the Court
“ They are not in themselves regulations of interstate commerce, and it is only when they operate as such in the circumstances of their application, and conflict with the express or presumed will of congress exerted upon the same subject, that they can be required to give way to the paramount authority of the constitution of the United States. ”
