Illinois Central Railroad v. Louisiana Public Service Commission

McCALEB, Justice.

This is another of a recent series of railroad agency discontinuance cases which have reached this Court on appeal.1 On July 11, 1958, the plaintiff railroad applied to the defendant commission for the third time (previous applications of 1954 and 1957 were refused) for permission to discontinue its agency station at Norwood, Louisiana, which station formed a part of its Vicksburg Division. The petition, based on grounds similar to those twice rejected by the Commission, alleged that “ * * * the 'volume of all freight consigned to and from Norwood Station * * * has been…