Legal Opinion
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. State Corp. Commission
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided September 6, 1950No. Record 3693PublishedCited by 17 opinions
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtHudgins, C. J.
This is an appeal from an order of the State Corporation Commission denying a request of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, hereinafter designated “appellant,” authority to close its station at Carson as an agency station.
Appellant contends that the action of the Commission is unreasonable, unjust, arbitrary and amounted to confiscation of its property.
Carson is a station on appellant’s interstate railway line in Dinwiddie county. It is 6.2 miles north of the agency station at Stony Creek, and 8.9 miles south of Collier Yard, which is immediately south of Petersburg. According to a…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Kansas Ex Rel. Railroad CommissionersSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
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3Cited by17 opinions
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