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SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. COMMONWEALTH

86 S.E.2d 839 (1955)

196 Va. 1086

SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

April 25, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas B. Gay, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., H. Merrill Pasco, Richmond, Arthur J. Dixon and Earl E. Eisenhart, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Atty. Gen., C. F. Hicks, Asst. Atty. Gen, William C. Seibert, Commerce Counsel, Richmond, for appellees.

Before HUDGINS, C. J., and EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER, SMITH and WHITTLE, JJ.,

BUCHANAN, Justice.

Southern Railway Company, appellant, an intrastate and interstate common carrier of freight and passengers, filed with the State Corporation Commission on September 16, 1953, a petition for authority to discontinue the operation of its passenger trains No. 7 and No. 14 between Richmond and Danville, in Virginia. Four public hearings were held and evidence introduced before the Commission in December, 1953, and February, 1954, and thereafter on July...

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