People ex rel. Erie Railroad v. Public Service Commission
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 8th day of July, 1915, directed to the Public Service Commission, Second District, of the State of New York, commanding it to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Albany all and singular its proceedings had in requiring the relator to operate a switch connection and side track on the property of the Lancaster Machine and Knife Works.
1Opinion of the Court
Cochrane, J.:
The Lancaster Machine and Knife Works owns and operates a manufacturing plant about one-fourth of a mile easterly from the station of the relator at Lancaster, IN". Y., and adjacent to its railroad. Prior to the year 1896, when the machine and knife works became the owner of its said premises, a side track was constructed from the main track of the relator to the factory of the machine and knife works with a switch connection with said main track, and such side track has been continuously operated since the year 1896 by the relator in the transportation of freight for the machine…
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