Texas & Pacific Railway Company v. Gulf

Transportation Act, 1920, c. 91, ? 402, 41 Stat. 456, 477-8, provides, Paragraph (18): ". . . no carrier by railroad subject to this Act shall undertake the extension of its line of railroad . . unless and until there shall first have been obtained from the Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require the construction . . . of such extended line . . ." Paragraph (22): "The authority of the Commission [so] conferred . . . shall not extend to the construction . . . of spur, industrial, team, switching or side tracks, . . . to be located wholly within one State . . ." Paragraph (20): "Any construction . . . contrary to the provisions . . . of paragraph (18) . . . may be enjoined by any court of competent jurisdiction at the suit of . . . any party in interest."