264 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

and in which any question arises under this sub-title, or under or con-
cerning any order or action of the Commission, shall be preferred
over all other civil causes except election causes, in all the Courts of
the State of Maryland, and shall be heard and determined in preference
to all other civil business pending therein, excepting election causes,
irrespective of position on the dockets of said Courts. The same pref-
erence shall be granted upon application of the General Counsel to the
Commission, or his assistant, in any action or proceedings in which
the General Counsel or his assistant may be allowed to intervene.

423.

The failure of defendants to avail themselves of this section pointed
out in holding that so far as could be judged from the conduct of the
defendants, they acquiesced in the order of the commission. Gregg v.
Public Service Commission, 12] Md. 1.

425.

See notes to section 438.

426.

See notes to section 439.

427.

See notes to section 439.

428.

An employee of an express company doing business along the line of a
railroad may lawfully accept gratuitous passage on the railroad in accord-
ance with the express terms of this section. Held that a demurrer to a
declaration for personal injuries to such employee while on a train, should
have been overruled. Smith v. Northern Central Ry. Co., 119 Md. 484.

1912, ch. 734.

428A. Any person or persons or any corporation running or using
steamboats in the excursion business from the city of Baltimore to
any place or places within the State of Maryland shall be permitted
to give transportation between said places in exchange for services ren-
dered in advertising said excursion business. This section to apply
only during the months of May, .Time, July and August of each and
every year.
435.*

*The act of 1914, chapter 748, repeals certain charter and other statutory rights
of the Washington, Potomac and Chesapeake Railway Company in the event of
its failure to comply with any order of the public service commission requiring
it to render adequate service.