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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Pennsylvania Rd. Co. v. Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
    
      Public Utilities Commission — Jurisdiction—Railroads—Enforcement of automatic fire door law — Section 8951-1, General Code.
    
    (No. 18870
    Decided December 14, 1926.)
    Error to the Public Utilities Commission.
    
      Messrs. Henderson £ Burr, and Mr. Sherman B. Randall, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Mr. G. C. Grabbe, attorney general, Mr. John W. Bricher, and Mr. Thomas Stevenson, for defendant in error.
   It is ordered and adjudged that the order of the said public utilities commission be, and the same hereby is, reversed on authority of Napier, Atty. Genl., v. Atlantic Coast Line Rd. Co., Chicago & N. W. Rd. Co. v. Rd. Comm. of Wisconsin, and Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co. v. Rd. Comm. of Wisconsin, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, November 29, 1926, 272 U. S., 605, 47 Sup. Ct., 207, and said cause is hereby remanded to the public utilities commission with instructions to sustain the motion of plaintiff in error to dismiss the proceeding.

Order reversed.

Marshall, C. J., Jones, Matthias, Day, Allen, Kinkade and Robinson, JJ., concur.