Brooklyn Heights R. v. Straus
District Court, E.D. New York
In Equity. Four suits, one by the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, one hy the Brooklyn, Queens County & Suburban Railroad Company, one by the Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad Company, and the other by the Nassau Electric Railroad Company, all against Oscar S. Straus and others, the Public Service Commission of the Stale of New York for the First District, and others.
1Per curiam
These four cases, being alike, will he disposed of in one opinion. The bills filed ask that an order of the Public Service Commission of the state'of New York requiring the complainants, street railroad corporations, to operate additional cars in the city of New York within certain dates, be adjudged to be illegal and void; that the Public Service Commission Raw itself be adjudged to he unconstitutional, and that the commissioners, defendants, be enjoined pendente lite from enforcing the order by actions for collection of penalties or by criminal proceedings against the companies’ officers.…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Wadley Southern Railway Co. v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- People ex rel. Miller v. PeckAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
- People ex rel. Joline v. WillcoxAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
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