Arlington & Fairfax Auto R. Co. v. Capital Transit Co.

This was an appeal from a judgment enjoining appellant railroad company from inaugurating passenger service into the District of Columbia. In our 1938 term the identical controversy was before us in United States ex rel. Arlington & F. Auto R. Co. v. Eigen, 68 App.D.C. 392, 98 F.2d 264. We then affirmed a decision of the District Court denying a writ of mandamus to compel the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia to designate a route for the company’s proposed operations. Thereafter appellant obtained from the Interstate Commerce Commission a ruling that the projected…