Boston & Maine Railroad v. State
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Appeal, from an order of the public service commission, made September 22, 1914, requiring the plaintiffs to issue 500-mile mileage books at the rate of two cents per mile and to keep them on sale.
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
The proceeding, an appeal from a decision and order of the public service commission, is brought under paragraph (d) of section 22, chapter 164, Laws of 1911, which with certain limitations and under conditions later to be considered permits an “appeal by petition to the supreme court.” This provision was enacted as an amendment to the act of 1911, by section 18, chapter 145, Laws of 1913. Supp. P. S. 356.
“An appeal is a continuation of the original suit, for the purpose of obtaining a new trial, ... by which the previous verdict is entirely set aside and the case is to be heard anew like an…
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- Beardsley v. New York, Lake Erie & Western RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
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