Kinney v. New Mexico Midland Ry. Co.

OPINION OP THE COURT

PARKER, C. J.

On November 11, 1918, the appellee filed a petition before the State Corporation Commission for the purpose of reducing the rates, which had been promulgated and charged by the defendant company, on coal and other commodities. The petitioner alleged that he was the owner of a coal mine, and was engaged in operating the same, and in mining coal therefrom at a place known as Tokay, within the Carthage coal district, in the county of Socorro, and in shipping coal from said point over defendant’s railway, and was also engaged in the business of operating a general…