Public Service Ry. Co. v. Board of Public Utility Commissioners
District Court, D. New Jersey
In Equity. Suit by the Public Service Railway Company against the Board of Public Utility Commissioners. On application for preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
WOORREY, Circuit Judge.
This action concerns the lawfulness of a rate fixed for a public utility under authority of a state statute.
The plaintiff is the Public Service Railway Company, a corporation organized under agreements of consolidation between many street railway companies, entered into by virtue of an act of the legislature of the State of New Jersey providing for the formation of traction companies and their regulation, approved March 14, 1893 (P. L. p. 302).
The defendant is the Board of Public Utility Commissioners, created by an act of the legislature of the State of New Jersey,…
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