Shamokin & Mount Carmel Transit Co. v. Borough of Mount Carmel

Citations

• 268 Pa. 276
• 110 A. 927
• 1920 Pa. LEXIS 675

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Ordinances—Police powers — Street railways— Stopping points — Blocking traffic — Reasonableness—Public Service Commission Act.</p> <p>1. A borough ordinance providing that the passenger street cars of an interurban railway operated on a much traveled Street shall proceed to certain other streets for the stopping and return point of the cars, to avoid blocking the street and impeding vehicular traffic, is not an unreasonable exercise of the police power of the borough.-</p> <p>2. The power of a borough to enact such an ordinance was not taken away by the statute creating the Public Service Commission.</p> <p>3. Such an ordinance is not an unreasonable or oppressive exercise of the police power merely because it may cause some readjustment of the street car company’s schedule and some additional expense in the operation of the cars, and the relocation of tracks or the building of turnouts on another street.</p>