READING & SOUTHWEST. ST. RWY. v. PA. P.U.C.


168 Pa.Super. 61 (1950)

Reading & Southwestern Street Railway Co., Appellant, v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission et al.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

December 15, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul H. Rhoads, with him Thomas Iaeger Snyder, Snyder, Balmer & Kershner and Rhoads & Sinon, for Reading and Southwestern Street Railway Company, appellant.

John W. Mentzer, with him Thomas M. Kerrigan and Charles E. Thomas, for Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, appellee.

Earl G. Harrison, with him Wm. A. Schnader, John W. Speicher, John T. Brady and Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, for intervening appellees.

Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, RENO, DITHRICH, ROSS, ARNOLD and GUNTHER, JJ.


OPINION BY ARNOLD, J., December 15, 1950:

When the factual situation here involved is simplified and the immaterial matters eliminated, the legal questions seem to be without difficulty.

The Reading and Southwestern Street Railway Company (called Southwestern) owns some 5.5 miles of street railway, extending from Reading to Mohnton, which it rented to the United Traction Company. This lessee later assigned the lease to the Reading Street Railway Company (called...

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