Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Commonwealth

This is an appeal from a decision of the State Corporation Commission dismissing the petition of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company, asking permission to abandon its agency station at Barren Springs, Virginia, a station on a branch of its railway system.

“First: The petition alleges that prior to January 22, 1915, it maintained a station and a first class agency at Barren Springs, on its branch line in Virginia, between Pulaski and Galax, which station is located in Wythe county 5.1 miles from Allisonia on north and 6.2 miles from Foster Falls on south; that in August, 1914, petition was…