ATCHISON RY. v. RAILROAD COMM.

Nos. 470, 471, 472.

283 U.S. 380 (1931)

ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY CO. v. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF CALIFORNIA ET AL. LOS ANGELES & SALT LAKE RAILROAD CO. v. SAME. SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. ET AL. v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 18, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. C.W. Durbrow, with whom Messrs. Robert Brenan, E.W. Camp, A.S. Halsted, Frank Karr, and Guy V. Shoup were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Arthur T. George, with whom Messrs. Ira H. Rowell and Roderick B. Cassidy were on the brief, for appellees.

Messrs. Erwin P. Werner, Milton Bryan, Max Thelen, Jess E. Stephens, and Edwin C. Blanchard, by special leave of Court, filed a brief as amici curiae.


Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

These are appeals from judgments of the Supreme Court of California, which affirmed an order of the Railroad Commission of that State requiring the appellants to construct a union passenger station in the City of Los Angeles, together with incidental connections, extensions, improvements and terminal facilities, in substantial compliance with the plan outlined by...

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