Legal Opinion

Southern Pac. Co. v. Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided April 16, 1900No. Nos. 1241, 1242PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of thé United States for the District of. Colorado. On October 2S, 1898, the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, a corporation of the state of Colorado, exhibited its bill of complaint in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Colorado against the Southern Pacific Company, a corporation of the state of Kentucky, and against numerous other railroad companies which, did business in connection with it, for the purpose of preventing…

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Appeal from the Circuit Court of thé United States for the District of. Colorado. On October 2S, 1898, the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, a corporation of the state of Colorado, exhibited its bill of complaint in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Colorado against the Southern Pacific Company, a corporation of the state of Kentucky, and against numerous other railroad companies which, did business in connection with it, for the purpose of preventing said railroad companies from putting in force freight rates on merchandise shipped from. Pueblo, in the state of Colorado,…

1Opinion of the CourtThayer, Circuit Judge

The first paragraph of the restraining order which is quoted above in the statement, namely, that part of the order which requires the defendant company to comply with the order of the interstate commerce commission of date November 25,1895, and in obedience thereto to transport steel and iron products from Pueblo, Colo., to San Francisco, Cal., for 45 cents and 37-J- cents per hundredweight, and in no -event to chárge more than 75 per cent, of the rate on similar products between Chicago and San Francisco, cannot be upheld consistently with the decisions of the supreme court of the United…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Interstate Commerce CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  2. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1897
  3. Pulllman's Palace Car Co. v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1885
  4. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Southern Express Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1886
  5. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Alabama Midland Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1897

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. City of Madison v. Madison Gas & Electric Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1906
  2. Gulf Compress Co. v. Harris, Cortner & Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1908
  3. Garson v. Steamboat Canal Co.Nevada Supreme Court · 1919
  4. Columbus Iron & Steel Co. v. Kanawha & M. Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1910
  5. Thacker Coal & Coke Co. v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1910

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