Case Name: PORTLAND RY. L. & P. CO. v. RAILROAD COMMISSION
Court: Oregon Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 1909-12-21
Citations: 57 Or. 126
Docket Number: 
Parties: PORTLAND RY. L. & P. CO. v. RAILROAD COMMISSION.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oregon Reports
Volume: 57
Pages: 126–128

Head Matter:
Argued Nov. 23,
decided Dec. 21, 1909,
rehearing denied June 7, 1910.
PORTLAND RY. L. & P. CO. v. RAILROAD COMMISSION.
[105 Pac. 715.]
Carriers — Charges—Unjust Discrimination.
The fare charged by an electric railroad company from the city limits of a city having more than 50,000 population to certain suburban towns was 15 cents, without transfer privileges, while that charged upon another division to certain other towns, which were a less distance from the city limits, was 10 cents, with transfer privileges. Held, that there was an unjust discrimination in charges in favor of the towns on the latter division, which the Railroad Commission properly corrected.
(See 56 Or. 468-490.)
From Marion: William Galloway, Judge.
This is a suit by the Portland Railway Light & Power Company against the Railroad Commission of the State of Oregon; from a decree in favor of defendant, plaintiff appeals.
Affirmed.
For appellant there was a brief with oral arguments by Mr. Franklin T. Griffith and Mr. Frederick V. Holman.
For respondent there was a brief over the names of Mr. Andrew M. Crawford, Attorney General, Messrs. Giltner & Sewall and Mr. Clyde B. Aitchison, with oral arguments by Mr. Crawford and Mr. R. R. Giltner.

Opinion:
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Moore.
This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a decree confirming an order made by the defendant upon the complaint of B. Lee Paget and others, members of a voluntary association, commanding the plaintiff to desist from charging or collecting a fare of 15 cents for the transportation of any passenger on the Oregon City division between Portland and Milwaukie Heights, Courtney, Oak Grove, Center, and Bisley, which stations are collectively called the Oak Grove district, and not to demand or receive more than 10 cents for such service, and also to give to passengers between all stations in that district and Portland the same transfer privileges that the plaintiff grants to persons carried by it to that city on the Mt. Scott or the Springwater divisions. The facts herein are nearly identical with the incidents detailed in the Milwaukie case, 56 Or. 468 (105 Pac. 709), and show that passengers are carried on the Mt. Scott division for five cents to Lents, where a further charge of five cents is made for carrying them to Lents Junction and other places to and including Gates. Passengers are also carried from Portland over the Oregon City division or the Sellwood branch to Gulf Junction, and thence east to Nickum for five cents, when a further charge of that sum is made for carrying them to Kerrigan, Lents Junction, and other stations to and including Gates. The trackage distance from Portland or from the boundary thereof to Gates by the way of either of the divisions by which that station can be reached on the plaintiff's cars is farther than the trackage distance from the city of Portland or its limits to the utmost extent of the Oak Grove district. No transfers are given to passengers on the Oregon City division, although such privileges are granted to those that travel on the Mt. Scott and the Springwater divisions.
Such discrimination is unjust; and, based on the conclusions reached in the Milwaukie case, the decree herein is affirmed. Affirmed.