Lynchburg Traffic Bureau v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.

Lynchburg Traffic Bureau filed with the State Corporation Commission a petition praying that the Commission “declare the legal rate on ‘bulk ground limestone’ moving in carloads from Buchanan, Virginia to Norfolk, Virginia via N & W Railway.” The petition does not further identify the petitioner or indicate what its interest is in the question, or in what way or on what ground it has a right to institute or maintain the petition, which it labels “Motion for Declaratory Judgment.”

The statute, Code § 8-578, provides that courts of record may give declaratory judgments in cases of “actual…