Opinion
No. 29,143.
Filed April 5, 1954.
INJUNCTION — Restraining Order — Public Service Commission — Orders — Statutes. — A temporary restraining order against the Public Service Commission to restrain the enforcement of an order of the Commission directing a railroad company to provide flagman or install flasher lights at crossing is prohibited by Acts 1929, ch. 169, § 7 (Section 54-435, Burns' 1951 Replacement).
Original action by the Public Service Commission of Indiana and its members, and the Attorney General, as relators, to prohibit the Warrick Circuit Court and Judge thereof from proceeding in an action instituted by The New York Central Railroad Company.
Temporary writ of prohibition made permanent.
Edwin K. Steers, Attorney General, Arthur H. Gemmer and Jesse D. Wright, Deputy Attorneys General, for relators.
Gray Waddle, of Petersburg, for respondents.
The Public Service Commission of Indiana issued its order requiring The New York Central Railroad Company to provide a flagman or install flasher lights at one of its crossings in Warrick County, Indiana.
The railroad company sought and obtained in the Warrick Circuit Court a temporary restraining order against the Public Service Commission.
Such restraining order is prohibited by § 54-435, Burns' 1951 Replacement, § 7 of Ch. 169 of the Acts of 1929. See concurring opinion of Judge Emmert in Public Service Commission of Indiana et al. v. Geo. F. Alger Company (1954), 233 Ind. 185, 118 N.E.2d 365.
The temporary writ of prohibition heretofore issued by this court is hereby made permanent.
Draper, C.J., and Bobbitt, Emmert, and Gilkison, JJ., concur.
NOTE. — Reported in 118 N.E.2d 493.