Case ID: ohio-law-abs_1/html/0860-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DAY, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 17988
    The Lake Erie, Alliance & Wheeling Railroad Company et al v. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
    (Filed in Supreme Court, May 22, 1923).
    Error to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
    311. RAILROADS.
    Physical connections between lines — Jurisdiction between Ohio Public Utilities and Interstate Commerce Commissioners, where application has been made to both.
   DAY, J.

Where a railroad engaged in interstate and intrastate commerce invokes the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission for an order requiring another railroad likewise engaged in interstate and intrastate commerce to join in making a physical connection between the two lines, pursuant to paragraph 3, Section 3, of the Transportation Act of February, 1920, and before final determination thereof, such applicant road, without dismissing such proceeding before the Interstate Comlmerce Commisj, sion, makes application to the Public Utilities Confl mission of Ohio for exactly the same connection, and secures the same in so far as intrastate commerce is. concerned, and thereafter the Interstate Commerce Comlmission, whose jurisdiction was first invoked, having fully heardi the original application, denies the same upon grounds affecting both interstate and intrastate commerce, Held: Under such circumstances the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission .is exclusive and the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio was without jurisdiction to grant such order.

Order reversed.

Marshall, C. J., Robinson, Jones and Matthias, JJ., concur. Wanamaker, J., dissents.