Utilities Com. v. . R. R.

Proceeding before the North Carolina Utilities Commission.

The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company filed a petition with the North Carolina Utilities Commission for permission to close the agency at Jonesboro, N.C. The Western Union Telegraph Company filed a similar petition and agreed to be bound by the rulings of the Commission on the petition of the railroad.

At the hearing before the Utilities Commission on 18 August, 1943, permission for the town of Jonesboro and others to interveners was granted, and the answer and interplea of the interveners were filed and made a part of the record in…