State ex rel. Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Co. v. Railroad Commission

Citations

• 69 Wash. 523
• 125 P. 953
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 941

Syllabus

<p>Railroads—Regulation—Name oe Stations—Railroad Commission. An order of the railroad commission requiring a railroad to designate the name of a station in its tariffs, folders, and tickets as Bingen and White Salmon is unreasonable, where it appears that its station, in the village of Bingen of 100 inhabitants, is hut one and one-half miles from the business center of the town of White Salmon, having a population of 800 or more, the latter heing the more appropriate name for the district, and the railroad company-having recently changed the name of its station from Bingen to White Salmon in deference to the wishes of a majority of the patrons of the station; since the naming of its stations will not he interfered with in the absence of any public necessity therefor.</p>