Railroad & Warehouse Commission v. Litchfield & Madison Railway Co.

In 1889 the appellant, the Litchfield and Madison Railway Company, constructed, and has since maintained and operated, a steam railroad from a point one mile south of Litchfield to Madison. It has done, and still does, a freight business only, eighty-five per cent being transportation of coal from six coal mines along its line. In 1905 the St. Louis, Springfield and Peoria Railroad Company (which is also known as the Traction System) proposed the construction of an electric trolley line and laid out its road, crossing appellant’s road about a mile south of Worden. On December 28, 1905, the…