State ex rel. Railroad Commissioners v. Louisville
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by Division A. This is a case of original jurisdiction. Statement. The folloAving alternative writ of mandamus was issued by this court: “The State of Florida, To The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company • and The Seaboard Air Line Railway.
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This case was decided by Division A. This is a case of original jurisdiction. Statement. The folloAving alternative writ of mandamus was issued by this court: “The State of Florida, To The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company • and The Seaboard Air Line Railway. GREETING: WHEREAS, by a petition filed by our Railroad Commissioners in our Supreme Court in the name of the State of Florida, through F. M. Hudson as Special Counsel for our said Railroad Commissioners, designated by them, it has been made to appear: 1. That the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company is a railroad corporation…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, C. J.
— The purpose of this proceeding is to enforce the order of the Railroad Commissioners set out in the statement requiring the respondents to cease carrying freight cars in certain designated trains between Jacksonville and Pensacola, points within this State, and to observe a prescribed schedule in the operation of such trains.
It is not contended that the order the relators seek to have enforced is illegal on its face. The questions presented are whether the averments of the return to the alternative writ that are admitted by the demurrer show that the enforcement of the order as made (1)…
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