Portland Ry. Light & Power Co. v. Railroad Commission
Oregon Supreme Court
From Marion: William Galloway, Judge Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Moore. This is a suit to set aside an order made by the defendant, the Railroad Commission of Oregon, requiring the plaintiff, the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, a corporation, to reduce in some particulars a schedule of fares, and also to deliver, to persons paying the diminished charge, transfer tickets granting further. conveyance on other cars under its management.
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From Marion: William Galloway, Judge Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Moore. This is a suit to set aside an order made by the defendant, the Railroad Commission of Oregon, requiring the plaintiff, the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, a corporation, to reduce in some particulars a schedule of fares, and also to deliver, to persons paying the diminished charge, transfer tickets granting further. conveyance on other cars under its management. The facts are as follows: The plaintiff controls and operates cars propelled by electricity on urban, suburban, and interurban, railways. Thus the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Moore.
It- is maintained by plaintiff’s counsel that' the law in force when the order was confirmed did not authorize a regulation of fares in consequence of discrimination against any locality, but only when a difference in charges was made to passengers for like and contemporaneous service, and, such being the case, an error was committed in rendering the decree herein.
1. A statute was enacted February 18, 1907, creating a Railroad Commission, and containing provisions which, so far as deemed material, are as follows:
“The term ‘railroad’ as used herein shall mean…
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