Groesbeck v. Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brandéis
delivered the opinion of the court.
The constitution of Michigan (Article XII, § 7) authorizes the legislature to pass laws establishing “reasonable maximum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight.” In 1907 it fixed two cents a mile as the maximum intrastate passenger fare on railroads operating in the Lower Peninsula and three cents for those in the Upper. By Act approved May 2, 1911 (Public Laws No. 276), the two-cent rate was made applicable to all the railroads of the State whose gross earnings on passenger trains equal or exceed $1,200 per…
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