Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Public Service Commission

The appellant owns and operates a railroad, a branch line of its system, from Altamont, in Davies County, to St. Joseph, a distance of about fifty miles. The primary state highway from Hannibal to St. Joseph, designated as Route No. 8, crosses this branch line at a point about fourteen miles east of St. Joseph. On an application by the State Highway Commission, the Public Service Commission, the respondent, made an order requiring the State Highway Commission to construct a viaduct over appellant's railroad track at said point and requiring appellant to pay $13,000, approximately one-third of…