Public Service Commission v. Harpers Ferry & Potomac Bridge Co.

HatcheR, Judge :

The Harpers Perry and Potomac Bridge Company, a corporation, operates a highway toll bridge extending across the Potomac River from West Virginia to Maryland. This is a proceeding in mandamus brought by the Public Service Commission of West Virginia against the bridge company to compel it to file with the commission the schedule of the tolls charged traffic crossing the bridge from West Virginia.

The proceeding was submitted on the pleadings and a stipulation from which it appears that in 1822 the General Assembly of Maryland passed an Act providing that in case the…