Missouri v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

This is a direct appeal to this Court from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri, entered May 6, 1933, in receivership proceedings, and allowing a claim of the State of Missouri for $7,000, as ,an unsecured obligation. The preference sought by the State was denied. The claim is founded upon alleged overcharges in railway passengér fares, exacted of the State of Missouri by the Missouri Pacific Railway Company during the years 1907 to 1913 inclusive, contrary to the provisions of the Missouri statute of 1907. In a suit to enjoin the…