CHICAGO R. I. & P. RY. CO. v. STATE

CHICAGO R. I. & P. RY. CO. v. STATE
1919 OK 111
180 P. 250
72 Okla. 226
Case Number: 9374
Decided: 04/08/1919
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

CHICAGO R. I. & P. RY. CO.
v.
STATE et al.

Syllabus

¶0 Railroads--Appeal from Order of Corporation Commission--Continuance of Cause.
The Corporation Commission made an order requiring appellant to construct a modern fireproof depot in the city of Sayre, from which order appellant appeals. It appearing to the court that the United States government has taken charge of appellant's system of railway, and is now operating same, in view of this situation the order of submission is set aside, and the cause continued until further order of the court.

Appeal from Corporation Commission.

Appeal by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company from an order of the Corporation Commission requiring the company to construct a modern fireproof depot within the city limits of Sayre. Order of submission set aside, and cause continued until further order of the court.

C. O. Blake, John E. Du Mars, R. J. Roberts, and W. H. Moore, for appellant.

OWEN, J.

¶1 This is an appeal prosecuted by the railway company from an order of the Corporation Commission requiring the railway company to construct within the city limits of Sayre a modern fireproof depot.

¶2 It appears the depot at Sayre was erected before the town was built, and is not within the incorporate limits of the town. It appears also the railway company had agreed with the city of Sayre to construct a suitable depot within the city limits at an agreed location, but was unable to carry out that agreement, for the reasons that the railway company was placed in the hands of a receiver, and soon thereafter placed under the control of the American Railway Association's Special Committee on National Defense, cooperating with the government of the United States, to further the prosecution of war with the Imperial government of Germany.

¶3 The facts and conditions presented by this record are very similar to the case of St. L. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. State et al., 67 Okla. 274, 170 P. 1146, in view of which the order of submission in that case was set aside, and the cause remanded until the further order of the court. For the reasons assigned in that case, the order of submission in the instant case is set aside, and the cause continued until the further order of the court.