Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Whelen Springs Gravel Co.

The appellees filed petitions with the Railroad Commission to require the Missouri Pacific to allow ,them $3 per car for switching cars by the gravel company’s locomotives in and between the gravel plants and the carrier for the transportation.

The gravel plants are at various distances from, and are connected -with, appellee’s railroad, by private spur tracks. Each of the gravel companies owns switch tracks and locomotives which they use in their plant, and which are also used in switching cars onto the tracks of appellant.

The spur tracks were constructed by the gravel company, the rails…