Snow v. . Debutts

Plaintiff was a mail carrier on the line of the corporate defendant and defendant DeButts was its general manager.

In May, 1931, the corporate defendant petitioned the Corporation Commission of North Carolina to be allowed to discontinue certain passenger trains, then being operated by it. There were a number of hearings before the Commission and the plaintiff, as a citizen of Mount Airy, appeared and opposed the petition and gave testimony in behalf of the respondents.

At the time of the hearings the Corporation Commission was not vested with authority to authorize the discontinuance of…