106 P. 852 | Okla. | 1910
The appellant is required by the Corporation Commission to stop on flag or signal its two fast through trains running from Oklahoma City to Parsons, Kansas, and returning, at Witcher. The schedules of the trains stopping at said station are as follows: North bound: No. 26, 11:04 a. m. No. 562, local freight, daily except Sunday, carrying passengers, 7:55 a. m. South bound: No. 25, 4:54 p.m. No. 561, local freight daily except Sunday, carrying passengers, 3:45 p.m.
No. 22 going north passes said station between 6:30 and 7:10 p. m., and No. 21 going south between 9:31 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. Under the authorities cited in the case of M., K. T. Ry. Co.v. Norfolk, ante, p. 325,
There has been no effort to show that the stopping of these two trains would operate as a pecuniary loss to the appellant, nor does it appear that such stoppage would reasonably prevent or *588 hamper the interstate connections contemplated. It is true that Witcher is a small town, having only four or five dwelling houses, three store buildings, a gin, elevator, and blacksmith shop, but the adjacent or tributary country is thickly settled and a nearby city of the size of Oklahoma City would naturally be the general trading point of such people. In addition, it is the county seat in which the county offices are located and the people necessarily have frequent occasion to go to transact business arising with such officers.
The order appealed from is presumed to be just and reasonable on review in this court until such presumption is overcome by appellant. A., T. S. F. Ry. Co. v. State et al.,
The judgment of the Corporation Commission is affirmed.
All the Justices concur.
