People Ex Rel. Garrison v. . Nixon
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, in each of the above-entitled proceedings, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered April 12,1920; which dismissed a writ of certiorari and affirmed the proceedings of the public service commission denying an application, by relatois, for permission to increase the rate of fare for transportation of passengers on a street surface railway.
1Per curiam
The petitions of the appellants to the public service commission requested an order authorizing the appellant to charge and collect a cash rate of fare of eight cents for the transportation of passengers “ between any two points of any of said lines of railroad ” of the company. We construe this as an application for an increase of fare on the entire route and so the record shows that it was construed by counsel.
We think that the following classes of franchises fall outside the scope of our decisions in Matter of Application of the City of Niagara Falls v. Public Service Commission of the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Matter of Quinby v. . Public Service Comm.New York Court of Appeals · 1918
- City of Niagara Falls v. Public Service CommissionNew York Court of Appeals · 1920
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