Loraine v. Pittsburg, Johnstown, Ebensburg & Eastern Railroad

Citations

• 205 Pa. 132
• 61 L.R.A. 502
• 54 A. 580
• 1903 Pa. LEXIS 530

Syllabus

<p>Mandamus — Bight of individual to institute proceedings — Common carriers — Furnishing cars.</p> <p>Where a person opens and equips a coal mine on the line of an existing railroad, and the railroad company after furnishing him ears for a certain period of time, refuses to continue to furnish him cars unless he sells his coal at a rate much below the market price to a company controlled by the president of the railroad company, the person injured may in his own name, and without the intervention of the attorney general, institute mandamus proceedings to compel the railroad company to furnish him cars ; in such a case it is immaterial that other shippers were refused cars for the same reason.</p> <p>Mandamus — Jurisdiction of court — Corporation—Chief place of business.</p> <p>Where a railroad company has its principal office in Philadelphia, but has constructed and operates its railroad wholly within Clearfield county, where its operating officers dwell, mandamus proceedings may be instituted against the company either in Philadelphia or in Clearfield county.</p>