Denver & R. G. R. v. Public Utilities Commission

The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company, hereinafter caled petitioner, filed in this court a petition for an alternative writ of mandamus against the Public Utilities Commission of Utah, hereinafter called commission. The petition recites that petitioner is a railroad corporation organized under the laws of Utah and Colorado and is the owner and operator, as a common carrier of freight and passengers for hire, of numerous lines of railroad in each of the states named and is about to construct a new standard gauge railroad track about one and one-fourth miles in length from its yards…