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536 , (1970); Texas & , (1958).

Texas & , ; Herrin Transportation Company v. Louisiana Public Service Commission, 241 La.

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inuance it is unreasonable to require the maintenance of an agency station where the cost of the service is out of proportion to the revenue derived from the portion of the public benefited thereby, .particularly-where a substitute service may be provided affording the same essential, although less convenient, service.’” Texas & , 106 So.

f insists that several facts (listed in the brief of its counsel and hereinafter discussed) are established by the record in this matter which warrant our annulling the Commission’s order under the authority of numerous cases decided by this court involving almost identical factual situations, particularly Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company v. Louisiana Public Serv *383 ice Commission et al., , 106 So.

Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company v. Louisiana Public Service Commission, et al, , ; Herrin Transportation Company, et al. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission, et al., 241 La.

243 , ; Texas & , ; Texas & New Orleans Railroad Co. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission, 235 La.

These facts, coupled with our holding in Texas & , , 2 were decisive of the trial court’s conclusion that there was no showing that the continuance of the agency station at Iowa was required by the public convenience and necessity.

t weight and the burden is on the railroad to show the invalidity of the orders of the Commission, if the findings and conclusions of the Commission do not conform to the law and are not supported by the evidence, so that the order of the Commission is unreasonable, the court may reverse or vacate such order.” Texas & , .

* * * ” However, , , 442 as follows: “While it is true that the orders of the Commission are entitled to great weight and the burden is on the railroad to show the invalidity of the orders of the Commission, if the findings and conclusions of the Commission do not conform to the law and are not supported' by the evidence

Indeed, insofar as financial problems are concerned, the case for plaintiff is much stronger than that of Texas & , , where it was held that the application of the railroad for authority to discontinue its Longstreet agency station should have been granted despite the fact that the station was making a small profit, as it appeared that the freight could be adequately handled at adjoining stations, the only inconveni

243 , ; Texas & , ; and Texas & New Orleans R. Co. v. Louisiana Public Service Comm., 233 La.

Railroads § 402c (2), pp. 962, 963; Texas & , ; Missouri Pacific Railroad Company v. Louisiana Public Service Commission et al, 238 La.

243 , ; Texas & , ; and Texas & New Orleans R. Co. v. Louisiana Pub.

Texas & , ; Texas & New Orleans R. Co. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission, 233 La.