Missouri Pacific Rld. Co. v. State Corporation Comm.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hatcher, C.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court approving an order of the State Corporation Commission which denied the application of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company and the Railway Express Agency, Inc., to operate the station at Stilwell, Kansas as a non-agency station.

The application to dispense with the agency at Stilwell stated in part:

“Said station and agency at Stilwell is 16.66 miles from applicants’ agency at Dodson, Missouri to the east thereof and 19.61 miles from applicants’ agency at Paola, Kansas to the west…