BACON v. RUTLAND R.R. CO.

No. 760.

232 U.S. 134 (1914)

BACON ET AL., PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF VERMONT, v. RUTLAND RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 19, 1914.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederic D. McKenney, with whom Mr. John Spalding Flannery, Mr. William Hitz, and Mr. Robert C. Bacon were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Edwin W. Lawrence for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill in Equity brought by the appellee, the Railroad Company, to restrain the Public Service Commission of Vermont from enforcing an order concerning a passenger station of the Company at Vergennes. The order is alleged to violate the Fourteenth Amendment. The Commission moved to dismiss the bill on the ground that until the appellee had taken the appeal from...

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