State ex rel. Puget Sound & Willapa Harbor Railway Co. v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Lewis county, Rice, J., entered April 17, 1916, affirming an order of the public service commission, after a hearing before the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Fullerton, J. —
The appellant, Puget Sound & Willapa Harbor Railway Company, in the construction of a line of railway through Lewis cofinty, found it necessary to cross in two places the existing railway of the respondent Northern Pacific Railway Company. It desired to make the crossings at grade, and to that end petitioned the public service commission for leave so to do. A hearing was had on the petition, at which leave was granted to make the crossings as petitioned for, on condition that suitable interlocking devices be installed and maintained at the crossings. After the entry of the…
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