Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad v. Minnesota
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. This was a petition for a mandamus filed in the District Court of Ramsey County by the State, upon the relation of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission, against the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company and several other railroad companies, (the first of which alone answered and sued out this writ of error,) to compel such companies to adopt and publish a joint through rate fixed by the Commission upon shipments of…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. This was a petition for a mandamus filed in the District Court of Ramsey County by the State, upon the relation of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission, against the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company and several other railroad companies, (the first of which alone answered and sued out this writ of error,) to compel such companies to adopt and publish a joint through rate fixed by the Commission upon shipments of hard' coal in carload lots, from the city of Duluth to certain points in the southern and western parts of the State of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This case raises two questions: (1) The constitutionality of an act of the legislature of Minnesota passed in 1S95, creating a Railroad and Warehouse Commission and defining its duties, (the material portions of which are printed in the case of Wisconsin &c. R. R. Co. v. Jacobson, 179 U. S. 287,) in so far as it assumes to establish joint through rates or tariffs over the lines of independent connecting railroads, and by virtue of which it assumes to arbitrarily apportion and divide joint earnings ; (2) whether the tariff fixed by the Commission is wholly inadequate and not compensatory.
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2Cases cited7 opinions
- Munn v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Smyth v. AmesSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Wisconsin, Minnesota & Pacific Railroad v. JacobsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati. N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1896
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