Knott v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS AND CROSS-APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. The facts are stated in the opinion. These cases were argued simultaneously with the other Missouri Rate Cases, ante, p. 474 by the same counsel and on the same briefs. Memorandum opinion by direction of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
By Mb. Justice Hughes.
These suits, with ten others,
were brought to restrain the enforcement of the freight-rate and passenger-fare acts of the State of Missouri passed in the years 1905 and 1907, as violative of the Federal Constitution. (See Missouri Rate Cases, decided this day, ante, p. 474).
Upon the hearing below, a stipulation was made br each of these eight suits, and orders were entered thereon, that it should abide “by the orders, judgment and decree that may be made and entered” in one of the other suits named, as follows:
The suit of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company was to…
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