Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad v. Public Service Commission
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 81, April T., 1921, by the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company, from order of the Public Service Commission, Nos. C. 3150, 3228 and 3229, in the case of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company v. The Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on appeal, and the Pressed Steel Car Company and Carnegie Steel Company, intervening appellees.
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Appeal, No. 81, April T., 1921, by the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company, from order of the Public Service Commission, Nos. C. 3150, 3228 and 3229, in the case of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company v. The Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on appeal, and the Pressed Steel Car Company and Carnegie Steel Company, intervening appellees. From the record it appeared that the Pressed Steel Car Company and Carnegie Steel Company filed a complaint before the Public Service Commission alleging that the highway bridge over the tracks and right of way of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Linn, J.,
On March 27, 1920, the car company and the steel company joined in a complaint to the commission against the Borough of McKees Rocks, the receivers of the Pittsburgh Railways Company, and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company, alleging that a bridge in the borough — part of a public highway — extending over the tracks of the railroad company was out of repair and closed to use by vehicles to the detriment of complainants and the public generally. They asked appropriate relief by the commission.
The record shows that the bridge — known as Q’Donovan’s bridge — was…
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