Ontonagon Railroad Co. v. Norton

The questions involved in this case grew out of a railway condemnation case. Plaintiff is the owner of a railroad about six miles in length, lying between Ontonagon and Green. It was originally constructed as a logging road by the McMillan lumber interests, but is now also a common carrier of freight and passengers, and is subject to the rules of the interstate commerce commission. The railroad was organized under the train railway act. It connects at Green with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and that railroad now, by force of certain agreements, operates its trains over it and…