LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD CO. v. FOWLER


271 S.W.2d 188 (1954)

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD CO. v. Hammond FOWLER.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing denied September 6, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walker, Hooker, Keeble, Dodson & Harris, Nashville, and Prime Osborn, Louisville, Ky., for complainants.

Alfred T. MacFarland, Gen. Counsel, and Harold Seligman, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Nashville, for Railroad & Public Utilities Commission.

Val Sanford, Nashville, for Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Railroad Firemen and Enginemen and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.

Fred Elledge, Jr., Nashville, U. S. Atty. for the United States, intervening petitioner.


SWEPSTON, Justice.

The primary question presented by this appeal is whether or not the Chancellor was legally authorized by the statutes to review the action of the Railroad & Public Utilities Commission in the manner in which he proceeded.

If the Chancellor was not so authorized, then other questions raised become immaterial and unnecessary to be dealt with.

The Railroad Company, on August 11, 1952...

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