Pharr v. Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry.

The sole question for our determination on this appeal involves the authority of the Railroad & Public Utilities Commission of the State to order the abandonment by the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway of a *157“team track” in the City of Paris, Tennessee, and requiring it to he located elsewhere.

The Commission claims to have exercised its authority - by virtue of Code, Secs. 5449 and 5450 and Chapter 130 of the Public Acts of 1939. We will refer to the parties, Railroad & Public Utilities Commission as the ‘ ‘ Commission,” and Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway as the “Railway”…