Key legal question
Whether the railway company should receive costs because the other parties accepted the proposal only after the deadline.
Extracted holding
Yes. The late declaration was the sole cause of the cancellation and the company was entitled to compensation for its wasted attendance.
Extracted reasoning
The tribunal noted that it had already held that a party failing to declare timely acceptance of the instruction commission's proposal must bear the consequences of the late declaration. Here, the tardy acceptance by the expropriated parties alone caused the failure to list other cases, so the request for expenses was justified.