Fort Smith Light & Traction Co. v. Bourland, 267 U.S. 330 (1925)

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Fort Smith Light & Traction Company v. Bourland


No. 220


Argued January 22, 1925
Decided March 2, 1925
267 U.S. 330

ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS

Syllabus

An order in effect requiring a street railway company to continue operating a part of one of its lines, though it was unremunerative and must be practically rebuilt at great expense to conform to a change of street grade, and though the railway as a whole, under existing rates, was not earning a fair return, held not arbitrary and not violative of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. P. 332.

160 Ark. 1 affirmed.

Error to a judgment of the Supreme Court of Arkansas which affirmed a judgment dismissing a bill brought by the traction company to set aside an order made by the city commissioners denying it leave to abandon a part of one of its lines. The opinion is here printed as amended by an order of April 27, 1925, which also denied a petition for rehearing.