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 * 1) EMINENT DOMAIN—SPUR TRACK.—Under Const., art. 17, § 1, providing that "every railroad company shall have the right with its road to intersect, connect with or cross any other road," the Railroad Commission, under Crawford & Moses' Digest,. § 1643, is authorized, on application by a railroad company for, a spur track across the industrial track of another road, to fix the point and manner of the crossing without first requiring petitioner to obtain right-of-way by condemnation.
 * 2) RAILROADS—SPUR TRACK—CERTIFICATE OF CONVENIENCE.—A proposed track extending from petitioner's main line to cottonseed plants to serve them directly held. a spur track within Interstate Commerce Act, authorizing constructiop of, spur tracks without obtainfng a certificate of convenience from the Interstate Commerce Commission.