Missouri Southern Railroad v. Public Service Commission
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. — Eon. E. M. Bearing, Judge. (1) The trams in question are not- railroads within the meaning of the Public Service Commission Act, and the Commission has no authority to regulate or control the operation thereof or to prescribe rates to be charged for the transportation of freight over them.
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Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. — Eon. E. M. Bearing, Judge. (1) The trams in question are not- railroads within the meaning of the Public Service Commission Act, and the Commission has no authority to regulate or control the operation thereof or to prescribe rates to be charged for the transportation of freight over them. Palm v. Railroad Co., 17. N. Y. Supp. 471. (2) The complaint herein in effect alleges that appellant is refusing to transport freight which by law it was bound to transport, and that for freight it did transport over the trams it charged more than warranted by law.…
1Opinion of the CourtBlair, P. J.
This is an. appeal from a judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court affirming an order of the Public Service Commission entered in the Matter of the Complaint of James M. Mooney v. Missouri Southern Railroad Company, 5 Mo. P. S. C. Rep. 250, which order, in so far as it is affirmed, required appellant to “refrain from charging or collecting for the transportation of carload shipments on the tram or spur tracks which connect with” appellant’s main line and points on appellant’s main line, “or between points on said trams, rates in excess of those in effect between other points on its main line,…
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