Delaware & Hudson Railroad v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal by The Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corporation from an order of the The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, rescinding its own order made November 14, 1960, in which the Commission had authorized the railroad to install automatic warning signals and gates at three grade crossings in the Borough of Olyphant, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, theretofore protected manually by a watchman in elevated towers on twenty-four hour duty, after rehearing, and directing the railroad to continue the manually operated gates at all the crossings.

On June 10, 1959,…