Legal Opinion
Fort Smith Light & Traction Co. v. Bourland
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 2, 1925No. 220PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice Brandéis
delivered the opinion of the Court.. The Fort Smith Light & Traction Company owns and operates in that city a street railway system with about 22 miles of line. Included in the system is a line extending, for a third of a mile, on Greenwood Avenue. Under the law of Arkansas, a street railway is not permitted to abandon any part of.'its line without leave of the city commission which exercises the powers of a public utility commission. The company applied to that board for leave to abandon- the line on Greenwood Avenue because it was, and would be, unremunerative. It…
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- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Public Service CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
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