Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.

In fact, one of the county's larger towns, Crewe, owes its existence to the railroad siding established at Robertson's Switch in the 1880s.

At about same time the town of Springville had begun to form just to the west of the emerging town of Camarillo but when the Southern Pacific railroad was built and chose Camarillo as the location for a depot, Springville's existence was threatened.

These towns owe their existence and prosperity to the railroad, each becoming an important shipping center.

In 1855, when the O & M Railroad was built, he moved his store to a site along the railroad, and the present village of Claremont came into existence.

( While the railroad line is no longer in existence, the Cardinal Greenway uses the old trail bed as a biking and hiking trail.

The actual city came into existence as a ' company town ' for a new railroad repair facility constructed by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad ( nicknamed the " Big Four ").

Lebanon Junction sprang into existence from a railroad switching point that split Louisville and Nashville Railroad ( now CSX Transportation ) traffic off the main railroad line to the Lebanon branch that ended in Lebanon, Kentucky.

A general store and railroad depot were in operation in Cisco until the late 1940s, and a few other home-operated family businesses may have had a fleeting existence, but none have endured.

They found a second source of water from a spring across the railroad track that was originally used by Thomas Purves ( Grandpa Purvis ) years before the town sprang into existence.

The Town of Archie was founded in 1880, being platted in July of that year ; the town owes its existence to the railroad that was being constructed through the middle of Cass County.

Like most early western communities, Wisner's real existence dates only from the time of the arrival of the railroad.

Slayden's growth was spurred by the existence of a railroad line ( the " Mineral Branch " of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad ) which was built in the late 19th century largely to assist the movement of iron from the nearby works at Cumberland Furnace to market.

The city owes both its name and existence to the university's location along a railroad.

The city of Independence owes its existence to a railroad and a man named David M. Kelly.

Yaquis built homes of scrap lumber, railroad ties and other materials, eking out an existence while taking great pains to continue the Eastern Lenten ceremonies so important to community life.

The earliest existence of the Panhandles was in 1900 ; the Columbus Press-Post reported Jack Walsh creating the " Panhandle railroad team " consisting of " big hardy railroad men.

A fallen flag is a North American railroader and railfan term referring to railroad company no longer in existence due to bankruptcy or merger.

* 1992: Northwestern Pacific is merged into SP, ending NWP's existence as a corporate subsidiary of SP and leaving the Cotton Belt as SP's only remaining major railroad subsidiary.

The railroad is still in existence, but in much reduced form.

Tapa owes its existence to the railroad.

The Seaboard Air Line Railroad, which styled itself " The Route of Courteous Service ," was an American railroad whose corporate existence extended from April 14, 1900 until July 1, 1967, when it merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, its longtime rival, to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.

in the case of a partnership or corporation, the existence of which has been terminated and on behalf of which an award is made, payment shall be made, except as provided in paragraphs ( 3 ) and ( 4 ), to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto ; ;

As war over the Order's existence appeared inevitable, Albert made strenuous efforts to secure allies and carried on protracted negotiations with Emperor Maximilian I.

This violin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may have been part of a set made for the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559, which would make it one of the earliest known violins in existence.

The intense secrecy surrounding the base, whose very existence the U. S. government did not even acknowledge until 29 September 1995, has made it the frequent subject of conspiracy theories and a central component to unidentified flying object ( UFO ) folklore.

In 1919, after delays caused by the destruction of World War I and a lengthy debate over who should head the institution and the socio-economic meanings of a reconciliation of the fine arts and the applied arts ( an issue which remained a defining one throughout the school's existence ), Gropius was made the director of a new institution integrating the two called the Bauhaus.

Until recently, it was believed that some experiments showed the existence of pentaquarks — " exotic " baryons made of four quarks and one antiquark.

Other exotic baryons have been proposed, such as pentaquarks — baryons made of four quarks and one antiquark ( B = + + + − = 1 ), but their existence is not generally accepted.

Pius V ( pope 1566 – 1572 ), however, while sanctioning those which could show at least 200 years of existence, made the Roman obligatory in all other places.

Abelard in his Dialectica made an argument against the idea that the copula can express existence based on a reductio ad absurdum.

For example, he refutes the claim made by Latsis that only 22 executions were carried out in the first six months of the Cheka's existence by providing evidence that the true number was 884 executions.

Eddington was aware that the existence of black holes was theoretically possible, and also realized that the existence of the limit made their formation possible.

Dark matter's existence is inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter and gravitational lensing of background radiation, and was originally hypothesized to account for discrepancies between calculations of the mass of galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the entire universe made through dynamical and general relativistic means, and calculations based on the mass of the visible " luminous " matter these objects contain: stars and the gas and dust of the interstellar and intergalactic medium.

On the other hand, the statement " A bridge crosses the Styx at Limbo " has the same form, but while in the first case we understand a real bridge in the real world made of stone or brick, what " existence " would mean in the second case is less clear.

The Catholic Church has not made a formal ruling on the existence of extraterrestrials.

All history must be studied afresh, the conditions of existence of the different formations of society must be examined individually before the attempt is made to deduce them from the political, civil law, aesthetic, philosophic, religious, etc., views corresponding to them.

According to the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda, the goddess Frigg made everything in existence swear never to harm Baldr, except for the mistletoe which she found too young to demand an oath from.

Artefacts found in Kalanti and the province of Satakunta, for long monolingually Finnish, and their place-names have made several scholars argue for an existence of a proto-Germanic speaking population component a little later, during the Early and Middle Iron Age.

Only statues made of him remained which referred to his genius mind and served to illustrate his existence on earth.

The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was listed as an endangered species on 11 March 1967, though the only evidence of its existence at the time was a possible recording of its call made in East Texas.

Bernard d ' Espagnat a French theoretical physicist best known for his work on the nature of reality wrote a paper titled The Quantum Theory and Reality according to the paper: " The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.

The shroud's origins are still a matter of controversy, but in 1988, a carbon dating analysis concluded that the shroud was made between 1260 and 1390, a span that includes the last half-century of the Templars ' existence.

Some experiments show evidence of tetraquarks —" exotic " mesons made of two quarks and two antiquarks ; the particle physics community regards their existence as unlikely, although possible.

An inventory made by his employers, the Medici family, indicates the existence of a piano by the year 1700 ; another document of doubtful authenticity indicates a date of 1698.