Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. v. State

This is an appeal from an order of the Corporation Commission denying appellant railroad company’s application to discontinue two passenger trains operating between Oklahoma City and Parsons, Kansas, the next terminal north of the Oklahoma border. The facts, for all practical purposes, are about the same as those in the case of Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. Co. v. State, 189 Okla. 685, 119 P. 2d 835. The only material difference is as to which trains are affected. No trains were discontinued after judgment in the cited case, because of increased traffic resulting from war conditions.

The railroad…