Southern Pacific Transportation Co. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission

SUMMERS, Justice.

This is an appeal by Southern Pacific Transportation Company from a judgment of the Nineteenth Judicial District Court affirming an order of the Public Service Commission which denied Southern Pacific’s application for authority to discontinue its agency station at St. Martinville.

*316The agency station at St. Martinville handles rail freight shipped and received in carload lots only. St. Martinville is 22 miles by rail and 16 miles by highway from Lafayette. It is twelve highway miles south of Breaux Bridge, and nine highway miles north of New Iberia. It is located on State…