Corporation Commission v. Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by the North Carolina Corporation Commission against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, heard by Judge George TI. Brown and a jury, at April Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of Waice County.
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ActioN by the North Carolina Corporation Commission against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, heard by Judge George TI. Brown and a jury, at April Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of Waice County. It appears from the record that for some ten years prior to 11 October, 1903, the passenger traffic from a large portion of Eastern North Carolina to Raleigh and the adjacent central part of the State was made by the defendant Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company connecting with the Southern Railway at Selma at 2 :50 P. M. dáily. For a year or two prior to that day the connection became…
1Opinion of the Court
Clark, C. J.,
after stating the facts. For more than ten years the people of a large part of the eastern portion of the State, having occasion to> come to tire capital or to the ad] acent central section, have found their most direct and convenient route to- be via Selma, at which point by its schedule the southbound train No. 39 of the defendant Atlantic Coast Line, delivered its passengers at 2:50 P. M. daily in time to connect with the Southern Railway westbound train No. 135 from Goldsboro to Greensboro. On 3 October, 1903, the Southern notified the Corporation Commission that owing to the…
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