Yazoo & M. v. R. v. Mississippi Railroad Commission

The railroad company prosecutes this appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Newton county imposing a penalty of five hundred dollars on the appellant.

The railroad commission sought to recover the statutory penalty of five hundred dollars for the alleged violation of section 7071 by the railroad company. In the first count of the commission’s declaration it sought to recover the penalty on the ground that appellant had abolished its depot at Lawrence, Mississippi, without first having obtained the consent of the commission. Count two seeks to recover the penalty because of the al leged…