...rights have been acquired and become vested, no amendment or alteration of the charter can take away the property or rights, which have become vested (under a legitimate exercise of the powers granted) for a private use, or unless compensation is first made, in the case of " a taking for a public use."...

...RR, &c. Co. , 4 Allen, 198. " Whatever may be its limitation, it at least reserves to the legislature the right to make any reasonable 'amendments regulating...under a legitimate exercise of the powers granted." Parker v. Metropolitan RR Co., 109 Mass. 508. 1 Compare Nugent v. Supervisors, 19 Wall. 241; Bishop...

...is broad and comprehensive. Whatever may be its limitation, it at least reserves to the legislature the right to make any reasonable amendments regulating...under a legitimate exercise of the powers granted." And in Shields v. Ohio, 95 US 319, Mr. Justice SWAYNE said: "The power of alteration and amendment...

...rights have been acquired and become vested, no amendment or alteration of the charter can take away the property or rights which have become vested under a legitimate exercise of the powers granted."* He did not profess to decide the case then before him on this principle, though he held an amendment...

...rights have been acquired and become vested, no amendment or alteration of the charter can take away the property or rights which have become vested under a legitimate exercise of the powers granted." I am not aware that this proposition of law has ever been controverted ; and there are similar intimations...

...have l>een acquired and become vested, no amendment or alteration of the charter can take away the property or rights which have become vested under a legitimate exercise of the powers granted." (Albany It. R. Co. v. Browndl, 24 ST. Y. 345.) The case of City of Detroit v. Detroit and F. Plankroad...

...rights have been acquired and become vested, no amendment or alteration of the charter can take away the property or rights which have become vested under a legitimate exercise of the powers granted " : Albany RR Co. v. Brownell, 24 NY 345. The case of City of Detroit v. Detroit etc. Plankroad Co.,...

...welfare and safety demand, subject always to the qualification that no radical changes shall be made to defeat or essentially impair the object of the grant...vested, under a legitimate exercise of the powers granted.2 But, under the reservation, the consolidation with another company cannot be required unless...

...tickets which shall be accepted for passage and fare upon all railroad lines in this Commonwealth." except that which requires each railroad corporation...taking or destruction of property without compensation ; nor does it extend so far as to require the corporation to serve the public without reasonable compensation....

...have been acquired and became invested, no amendment or alteration of the charter can take away the property or rights which have become vested under a legitimate exercise of the powers granted." In Miller vs. RR Co., 21 Barb. 513, the Legislature under the reserved power of alteration required...