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SEABOARD AIR LINE v. GEORGIA R.R. COMM.

No. 170.

240 U.S. 324 (1916)

36 S.Ct. 260

60 L.Ed. 669

SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY COMPANY v. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF GEORGIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 21, 1916.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edgar Watkins and Mr. W.G. Loving, with whom Mr. W. Carroll Latimer was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. James K. Hines for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the court.

After hearing the interested parties, the Railroad Commission of Georgia concluded that making and maintaining physical connection at Lawrenceville, Georgia (a manufacturing town with two thousand inhabitants), between Lawrenceville Branch Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railway would be practicable and to the public interest; and accordingly passed an order that within four months the roads should provide...

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