Railroad Commission v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad
Indiana Supreme Court
From Lake Superior Court; Virgil S. Reiter, Judge. Action by the Railroad Commission of Indiana against the Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company. From a judgment for defendant, the plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSpencer, J.
Appellant sued to recover statutory penalties for the use of the State of Indiana as provided by Acts 1907 p. 353, approved March 9, 1907, §§5292, 5293, 5294 Burns 1908. Complaint is in one paragraph. Demurrer for want of facts sustained. Appellant refused to plead further and the court rendered judgment accordingly. The error assigned is sustaining the demurrer.
The objections urged to the complaint were that the act upon which the complaint was based was unconstitutional, violative of the interstate commerce provision of the Federal Constitution, inoperative, discriminative, ambiguous and…
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