City of Lynchburg v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

In June, 1933, The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, sometimes hereinafter referred to as the Railway Company, filed an application before the State Corporation Commission asking, among other things, for authority to terminate all public duties imposed upon it in relation to the Lynchburg level of the James River and Kanawha Canal and associated properties, and for permission to abandon them and their use as a public way. After a protracted hearing the Commission entered an order granting the relief prayed for, with the express reservation that, for lack of jurisdiction of the subject…