Northern Pac. Ry. Co. v. Board of Railroad Com'rs

PRAY, District Judge.

The principal question for determination in the above entitled cause is whether public convenience and necessity require the operation of passenger trains numbered 291 and 292 on the Northern Pacific Railway between Helena and Garrison, Montana, and involves the validity of an ordfer of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Montana denying the application of the plaintiff railway company for permission to discontinue said passenger trains. The validity of the order is challenged on the grounds that it deprives plaintiff of its property without due process of law and also…