Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Co. v. United States

In 1921, the Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the New York Central Railroad and other rail car riers to join in establishing a union passenger station at Cleveland, through a subsidiary, the Cleveland Union Terminals Company. The Cleveland Passenger Terminal Case, 70 I. C. C. 659. The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company had for some years owned and maintained an independent passenger station at Ontario Street in Cleveland in the line of the easterly approach to the proposed union terminal. It was apparent from the outset that either ownership of or an easement in the Wheeling's site…