Legal Opinion
Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 21, 1951No. 395PublishedCited by 610 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Vinson
The Southern Railway Company, appellee, brought this action in the Federal District Court to enjoin the members of the Alabama Public Service Commission and the Attorney General of Alabama, appellants, from enforcing laws of Alabama prohibiting discontinuance of certain railroad passenger service. Appellee’s Alabama intrastate service is governed by a statute prohibiting abandonment of “any portion of its service to the public . . . unless and until there shall first have been filed an application for a permit to abandon service and obtained from the commission a permit allowing such…
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