City of Yonkers v. United States

The Interstate Commerce Act confers upon the Interstate Commerce Commission authority to issue certificates *686of public convenience and necessity allowing any carrier subject to the Act to abandon “all or any portion” of its line of railroad. § 1 (18), (19), (20), 49 TJ. S. C. § 1 (18), (19), (20), 24 Stat. 379,41 Stat. 477-478. But the Act also provides that that authority of the Commission “shall not extend” to the abandonment “of street, suburban, or interurban electric railways, which are not operated as a part or parts of a general steam railroad system of transportation.” § 1 (22), 49 U.…