Railroad Commission of Texas v. Houston & Texas Central Railway Co.

BROWNS, Associate Justice.

The Court of Civil Appeals for the Third Supreme Judicial District, has certified to this court the following statement and questions:

“By an order made and entered by the Railroad Commission of Texas, on the 21st day of June, 1895, said Commission established and promulgated 'Commodity Tariff üo. 1-A/ whereby it prescribed a schedule of rates in cents per hundred pounds, to apply by direct short line mileage ■on all shipments of cotton in bales, actual weight, in quantity transported by any railroad between points in Texas, and ordered that the same :should take…