State ex rel. Missouri Southern Railroad v. Public Service Commission
Supreme Court of Missouri
Mandamus. (1) All of that part of section 47 of the Public Service Commission Act of the State of Missouri under consideration in this case was copied verbatim from the Public Service Commissions Law of the State of New York, and in adopting the language of the New York statute the Legislature is presumed to have adopted the interpretation theretofore placed upon it by the commissions and courts of New York.
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Mandamus. (1) All of that part of section 47 of the Public Service Commission Act of the State of Missouri under consideration in this case was copied verbatim from the Public Service Commissions Law of the State of New York, and in adopting the language of the New York statute the Legislature is presumed to have adopted the interpretation theretofore placed upon it by the commissions and courts of New York. Laws New York, 190-7, chap-. 429; Laws New York, 1910, chap. 480; Laws New York, 1911, chap. 546; Knight v. Raw-lings, 205- Mo. 412; State ex rel. v. Miles, 210 Mo. 146; Skouten v. "Wood,…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, C. J.
Mandamus. Original proceeding. Relator is a domestic corporation owning and operating, as a common carrier of freight and passen*709gers, a railroad of fifty-four miles in this-State, beginning at the town of Leeper in Wayne county and running thence northwestwardly through parts of Wayne and Reynolds, ending at the town of Bunker in the latter.
In July, 1913, relator as petitioner made to, and filed a complaint with, the Public Service Commission. That complaint was under the Public Utilities Act. [Laws 1913, pp. 557-651.] In substance it set forth relator’s domestic incorporation as a railroad…
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