Public Serv. Comm. v. Mo. Pac. R.R. Co.

On August 28, 1943, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen filed with the Public Service Commission of Missouri, its application for an order of the Commission, requiring the railroad to discontinue the practice of operating one of its passenger trains with one of its baggage cars in the rear thereof. Thereafter, the railroad filed its answer with the Public Service Commission, admitting that a car is carried on the rear of train No. 11, from St. Louis to Kansas City, with an opening in each end thereof, and loaded with baggage and mail. It is alleged that the car was so carried to save time at…