Pennsylvania Railroad v. Public Utilities Commission

An order of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, directs the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Erie Railroad Company, appellants in this court, to adhere to local or intrastate rates in switching and delivering four carloads of bituminous coal to consignees in Youngstown, Ohio, and in switching and delivering any other carloads that may be tendered hereafter .in similar conditions. The question is whether the effect of such an order as applied to the transactions exhibited in the record is to regulate common carriers by rail in the business of interstate transportation, and thus to…