Ex parte Norfolk Railway & Light Co.

This is an appeal from an order of the State Corporation Commission, refusing an amendment of the charter of a street railway company.

The Norfolk City Railroad Company was incorporated by the General Assembly of Virginia on January 4, 1866, subject to the right of the State to modify or alter its charter. Acts 1865-6, page 320. The Norfolk Railway and Light Company is the successor of the first mentioned company, and entitled to all of its charter rights and priyileges, and as such applied to the State Corporation Commission to amend its charter in so far as it consisted of the charter of the…