United States Ex Rel. Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission

Citations

• 252 U.S. 178
• 40 S. Ct. 517
• 64 L. Ed. 517
• 1920 U.S. LEXIS 1604

Syllabus

<p>The Valuation Act of March 1,1913, requires the Interstate Commerce Commission to ascertain and report, inter alia, the present cost of condemnation and damages or of purchase of the lands, rights of way and terminals of carriers in excess of their original cost or present value, apart from improvements. Held, that a refusal of the Commission to receive and act upon evidence to this end was not justified by the .supposed impossibility of performing the statutory duty or the difficulties involved in so doing, and that a railroad company whose interests were affected was entitled to the writ of mandamus. P. 187.</p>