Boston & Maine Railroad v. State

We believe these cases must be remanded because of errors made by the Commission in calculating the net profit received from the Claremont Branch operations of the petitioning railroad in the years 1949 and 1950. As a result of evidence introduced at the hearings, the Commission decided that the direct freight revenue derived from the branch in the year 1949 was $31,265. By deducting this revenue from the total system freight revenue from the branch of $528,685 for the year 1949, it determined the revenue to the-system from shipments to and from points on the branch to be $497,420. The total…