Legal Opinion
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Public Utilities Commission
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided March 22, 1976No. 26816Published
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Pringle
This is an appeal by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. (Santa Fe) from two decisions of the Public Utilities Commission, as affirmed by the Denver District Court, allocating the costs of crossing protection devices at two road grade crossings of Santa Fe tracks in Douglas County. We affirm.
Douglas County filed two applications with the PUC requesting an order authorizing the construction, operation and maintenance of automatic grade crossing protection devices at the Wolfensberger Road crossing and the Titan Road crossing. The applications were consolidated for hearing, and a…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. WaltersSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Public Utilities CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Southern Pacific Co. v. Corporation CommissionArizona Supreme Court · 1958
- Southern Railway Co. v. City of Winston-SalemSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1969
- Union Pacific Railroad v. Public Utilities CommissionSupreme Court of Colorado · 1969