Title XXV INCORPORATION AND REGULATION OF CERTAIN UTILITIES AND CARRIERS Chapter 388 Effective - 28 Aug 1939 388.270. May own and operate motor vehicles. — Any steam railroad company operating a railroad in this state may acquire, own and operate motor vehicles for the purpose of carrying passengers or property, or both persons and property, for hire upon the highways of this state in the same manner as individuals are now or may hereafter be permitted so to do. -------- (RSMo 1939 § 5133) Prior revision: 1929 § 4660 (1956) Railroad, having authority to transport freight by truck from depot to depot, was not entitled to authority to pick up and deliver freight to shippers' docks in absence of showing of public convenience and necessity. State ex rel. Missouri Pac. Freight Trans. Co. v. Pub. Serv. Comm. (A.), 288 S.W.2d 679.
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