In re the Director of the Buffalo Frontier Terminal Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Application by the directors of the Buffalo Frontier Terminal Bailroad Company, under section 59 of the Bailroad Law (Laws of 1890, chap. 565, added by Laws of 1892, chap. 676, and amd. by Laws of 1895, chap. 545), for an order directing the- Public Service Commission of the second district of the State of New York to issue to the petitioner a certificate of public convenience and a necessity.
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Application by the directors of the Buffalo Frontier Terminal Bailroad Company, under section 59 of the Bailroad Law (Laws of 1890, chap. 565, added by Laws of 1892, chap. 676, and amd. by Laws of 1895, chap. 545), for an order directing the- Public Service Commission of the second district of the State of New York to issue to the petitioner a certificate of public convenience and a necessity. The petitioner was organized as a railroad corporation in January, 1904, for the purpose of building and operating a steam railroad of standard gauge from a point on Lake Erie one and one-half miles…
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
Within a few days after the hearing before the Board of Railroad Commissioners commenced the Buffalo, Lake Erie and Niagara Railroad Company was permitted to intervene. • This company was duly organized and had projected a terminal railroad through the same general territory and following to a considerable degree the course *506of the petitioner, except that its easterly line was nearer the city than that of the petitioner’s. Each company had a like purpose, and a certificate to one would in all probability result in the denial of it to the other.
In December, 1902, the Niagara Transfer…
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