Public Utilities Commission v. Town of Erie

On June 1,1932, the Public Utilities Commission, after a hearing, determined that the public convenience and necessity no longer require the maintenance of a railroad station agency, as such, at the town of Erie, Colorado, but require the railroads to keep an employe on duty at the station for an hour each day as a caretaker and to perform other designated services, commencing on June 15, 1932. The commission entered an order compatible with its findings; the town of Erie sued out a writ of certiorari which was issued by the district court of Boulder county, and the court set aside the above…