STATE v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 196.

150 S.E.2d 386 (1966)

268 N.C. 242

STATE of North Carolina ex rel. UTILITIES COMMISSION v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 12, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maupin, Taylor & Ellis, by Frank W. Bullock, Jr., Raleigh, and Albert B. Russ, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla., for Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.

Edward B. Hipp, Raleigh, for North Carolina Utilities Commission.

Vaughan S. Winborne, Raleigh, for Transportation-Communication Employees Union, appellee.


LAKE, Justice.

A railroad or other public utility corporation is engaged in the operation of a privately owned business. By virtue of the nature of the services it undertakes to render, certain exceptional duties are imposed upon it by the common law and by statute, and the Utilities Commission is authorized by statute to regulate its activities. In other respects, the company has the same freedom as does any other corporation in the management of its properties and...

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