Co-operative Legislative Committee of the Transportation Brotherhoods v. Public Utilities Commission

Section 4999.08, Revised Code, being a penal tatute, must be strictly construed. Erie Rd. Co. v. Public Utilities Commission (1943), 141 Ohio St., 342, 48 N. E. (2d), 100.

Apart from certain language in the opinion in New York Central Rd. Co. v. Public Utilities Commission (1929), 121 Ohio it., 383, 169 N. E., 299, it would be very difficult to give serious onsideration to a contention that this Trackmobile was an ‘ ‘ engine or locomotive” within the meaning of those words as used n Section 4999.08, Revised Code. However, it is stated in that tpinion that those words include any…