Hammond Lumber Co. v. Public Service Commission
Oregon Supreme Court
From Marion: George G. Bingham, Judge. Department 2. The plaintiffs are owners of large tracts of timber in Columbia County in a region served by the Columbia & Nehalem River Railroad Company, which owns and operates a railroad about 27 miles in length in that county, mainly for the purpose of haul-, ing logs to the Columbia River.
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From Marion: George G. Bingham, Judge. Department 2. The plaintiffs are owners of large tracts of timber in Columbia County in a region served by the Columbia & Nehalem River Railroad Company, which owns and operates a railroad about 27 miles in length in that county, mainly for the purpose of haul-, ing logs to the Columbia River. The Railroad Company filed with the Public Service Commission of Oregon its schedule of freight rates, which was contested before the commission by the plaintiffs here, as to the rate to be charged on logs. After a hearing before the commission, in which the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
The authority for a suit of this nature is found in Section 6910, L. O. L., reading thus:
“Any railroad or other person, persons or corporation interested in or affected by any order of the commission fixing any rate or rates, fares, charges, *598classifications, joint rate or rates, or any order fixing any regulations, practices or service, being dissatisfied therewith, may commence a suit in the Circuit Court of Marion County against the commission as defendant to vacate and set aside any such order on the ground that the rate or rates, fares,' charges, classifications, joint rate or rates,…
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