Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. Co. v. State

This is an appeal from an order of the Corporation Commission denying appellant railroad company’s application to discontinue two passenger trains operating between Oklahoma City and Parsons, Kan., the next terminal north of the Oklahoma border.

Permission to discontinue was sought on the ground that public necessity and convenience no longer required such service or justified the continuance thereof in the face of the prolonged financial loss resulting to the company from said service.

The trains in question are numbered 25 and 26, operated in the daytime, one running north, the other south,…