City of Hampton v. Newport News & Hampton Railway, Gas & Electric Co.

_ The appellee, a public service corporation operating a street railway in the city of Hampton, by virture of a franchise granted it and its predecessor by the city, *25filed its petition with the State Corporation Commission, praying that it be relieved of the duty of paving-between the rails of its tracks and two feet on each side thereof, on Locust street, between Fulton street and Mallory avenue, on which streets its tracks are-laid as required by the terms of an ordinance passed by the city on the 11th day of April, 1907.

The city denied the power of the Commission to afford the relief…