Lehigh Navigation Coal Co. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Opinion by

Rhodes, J.,

O’Donnell Brothers, a copartnership engaged in selling coal, lumber, and liquid fuels, instituted before the Public Utility Commission a complaint seeking to compel the Lehigh Navigation Coal Company, respondent, to allow the copartnership the use of a certain railroad sidetrack under the provisions of Article 2, §l(o), of the Public Service Company Law of July 26, 1913, P. L. 1374, 66 PS §103. The sidetrack was one constructed by respondent shortly after April 1, 1932, over property leased by it from other corporations, and connecting the tracks of the Pennsylvania…