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Manila Railroad Co. vs. M.P. Tranco, Inc.

MANILA RAILROAD COMPANY, applicant-appellee, vs. M. P. TRANCO, INC., opponent-appellant.

G.R. No. 39217 | 1933-12-20

D E C I S I O N

HULL, J:

This is an appeal by the M. P. Tranco, Inc., from an order of the Public Service Commission entered on January 24, 1933, which is the basis of G.R. No. 39181, 1 in which the Manila Railroad Company was the appellant, and which was decided by this court in a decision promulgated this day.

The first assignment of error in the present appeal relates to the power of the Public Service Commission under paragraph (h) of section 15 of Act No. 3108 to grant ex parte, without notice and without the taking of any evidence, a change in rates. It is to be noted that the Legislature has fixed a thirty-day period as the...