State ex rel. Railroad Commissioners & Attorney General v. Bullock

Citations

• 78 Fla. 321
• 82 So. 866

Syllabus

<p>1. The operation of a common carrier railVoiad is a business so affected with a public interest that when once undertaken and begun it cannot be discontinued and the road so- operated abandoned and authorized to be dismantled by ia proceeding in which the State and the public are hot represented, when such discontinuance and dismantling has not been consented to by the State.</p> <p>2. A Circuit Court in this State has no jurisdiction in a suit brought by a trustee agiainst a common carrier railroad company to foreclose a trust deed upton the properties of such railroad company given to the trustee to secure the payment of the indebtedness of the railroad company without the assent of the State to order the railroad dismantled, its properties sold and removed and its operation as a common carrier discontinued.</p>