Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-07-04
TEST Case READY. FOR TRIAL.

tspcciui 10 tho Duly Press. |,

noy General Anderson today ccnr
menced proceedings before the State
Corporation Commission to enforce
tho Chnrchman two cent passenger
nliloage law. when he filed tho fol-.
lowing petition and complaint on be.
half OF the State.
To the State Corporation Commits.
sion:
Tho Commonwealth OF Virginia, by
William A. Anderson. her attorney
general. comes and BY this, her pc.
tltion and complaint. IN the nature
I" mn information, presents to the
commission the following facts:
Commission Has Power.
by tho first section of the act
passed by the General Assembly Of :
virginia and approved March l5,
loO0 printed as chapter 1858 In the
volume of tho Acts Of 1906, n copy
oI which net Is annexed tn this ne.
lut'on. 1t Is provided thnt, "the pow.
or la conferred In the State Corpora.
Ton Commission, and Il Is required
~ Tx aud prescribe II schedule OF
rates Tor the transportation of pas
scngcrs by all transportation com
pahlcs or corporations, and until such
rates are prescribed by the State Cor.
poratlon Commission, all transporta.
ton companies or corporations, Old.
Grated by steam, shall ut nll times
Keep on sale at each and every sta
ton mileage books Of five hundred
miles and over, which books. may
contain such reasonable conditions,
and restrictions as may from time,
To Time be approved by the State
Corporation Commission"
Must Be on Sale.
The succeeding sections of said
act contain, rs Will be seen from
their perusal. number OF provi-
sions defining the nature and effect
of the mileage tickets or books which
such transportation companies, by
Its terms. are required TO keep on
sale, regulating their use and limit.
Ing the same to the lines OF such
companies IN this State. and giving
adequate protection alike to the per.
sons entitled to use, and TO the com.
panies Issuing, such mileage books.
By operation of section SO Of the
Constitution and section 4 OF the
Code OF 1904, said act went into eff
feet oil Wednesday, the 18th OF June,
1906.
Citizen Refused Tickets.
On Saturday. the 30th day OF June.
1906, and again on Monday, the I'd
day OF July. 1906. r., Gray Haddorl,
Esquire. citizen and resident of
the county OF Henrico and State Of
Virginia, applied to w. Steele, the
agent OF the Atlantic Coast Line rail.
road company, at the station OF said
company, IN the city of Richmond,
for two five hundred miles mileage
books, such as transportation com.
panies are required by said act TO
issue and keep on sale. rendering
to said agent ten dollar legal ten
der note OF the United States In pay.
ment f0r each of the said
mileage books, respectively. The
mileage books which said Haddon
endeavored to purchase on the SOth
OF June were for his own personal
use; that which he applied for on
the I'd OF July. 1906, was for the
use Of himself and Of his wife, Mrs.
Lottie I. Haddon, dependent mem
Der of his family. whose name he
furnished the said agent of the At.
lantIc Coast Line Railroad Company
In writing, at the time he applied
for the same; but said agent upon
both occasions failed and declined
to sell said mileage books or either 4
of them, to said Haddon, and inform.
ed him that there were no such
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