State ex rel. Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Railroad Commission

Citations

• 62 Wash. 193
• 113 P. 252
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 673

Syllabus

<p>Railroads — Rates—Regulation—Reasonableness — Train Service. An order of tbe railroad commission requiring a daily mixed freight and passenger service over a branch line fourteen miles long is unreasonable, where the income from passenger travel resulting therefrom was only 9 cents per mile, and cost over thirty cents per mile, the present bi-weekly freight service was adequate and a financial loss to the company, which loss would be increased by the change without any great necessity for it.</p>