Chap. 244.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3734 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to appeals from the Corporation Commission to the Supreme Court of
Appeals, so as to limit to four months the time within which such appeals may be
taken and perfected. [fH B 233]

Approved March 18, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-seven hundred and thirty-four of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 3734. Appeal to Supreme Court ; how taken and perfected ;
to be heard promptly, etc., how section construed.—The Commonwealth
or any party aggrieved by any final finding, order, or judgment of the
commission shall have, of right, regardless of the amount involved, an
appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeals, which shall be taken and per-
fected within four months from the date of such final finding, order,
or judgment, and the Supreme Court of Appeals may, on petition of the
Attorney-General, or any other party so aggrieved, if said petition be pre-
sented within four months from the date of the final finding, order, or
judgment of the commission, award a writ of supersedeas to any such
final finding, order, or judgment, and may review, affirm, reverse, or
modify the same, as justice may require, and enter therein such order as
may be right and just. All such appeals shall be taken and perfected,
heard and determined, and the mandate of the Supreme Court of Ap-
peals certified down to the commission in the same manner as appeals
in equity causes from the circuit or corporation courts of this Common-
wealth to the Supreme Court, except that such appeals shall be heard
and disposed of promptly by the Supreme Court irrespective of its place
of session, next after habeas corpus and Commonwealth’s cases already
on the docket. This section, however, shall not be construed to interfere
in any way with the provisions of subsections (d), (e), (f£) and (g) of
section one hundred and fifty-six of the Constitution, as to appeals from
the action of the commission, prescribing rates, charges, or classification
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of traffic, or affecting the train schedule of any transportation company, or
requiring additional facilities, conveniences, or public service of any trans-
portation or transmission company, or refusal to approve a suspending
bond, or requiring additional security thereon, or an increase thereof;
but shall be construed to provide only for appeals from the final findings,
orders, and judgments of the commission in cases not expressly provided
for by the Constitution.