Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. State

ALMA WILSON, Justice.

In this consolidated appeal, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Pe Railway Company [Santa Pe] challenges two orders of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission denying its applications to discontinue assignment of local agents to three small towns. Santa Fe contends the Commission’s orders requiring it to maintain full agent services at Burlington and Marland, Oklahoma, and caretaker services at Red Rock, Oklahoma, exceed the jurisdiction and constitutional authority conferred upon the Commission by Okla. Const. Art. IX, § 18. Section 18, in pertinent part, provides:

“The…