Southern Pacific Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission

This case comes here, upon a certificate of. the three judges of the Circuit Court for the Northern District of California under § 1 of the expediting act of February 11, 1903, c. 544, 32 Stat. 823, as construed by them.

The suit was. brought by the railroad companies in the Circuit Court to' restrain the enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which established a maxi mum rate for the transportation of rough green fir lumber from points in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, to San Francisco. The case came on' for argument before the three Circuit Judges upon the demurrer of…