Legal Opinion
Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Railroad Commission
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided May 20, 1912No. 19,134PublishedCited by 6 opinions
Appeal from Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge; H. F. Brunot, Judge. Action by the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company against the Railroad Commission of Louisiana. Judgment for ^plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
[1] The State Railroad Commission made an order requiring the plaintiff company:
“To install and operate between Clinton and Ethel a passenger train service with its schedule so -arranged as to have the Clinton trains arrive and depart not more than 30 minutes before the arrival or after the departure of the main line passenger trains passing Ethel station.”
Said order added that:
“In complying with this order, the company 'is given the right and privilege to operate a motor car, instead of a regular passenger train, of sufficient size and capacity to accommodate ■the traffic, if this can be…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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