International-Great Northern R. v. Railroad Commission of Texas

Appellant sued the Railroad Commission of Texas, the individual members composing it, and the Attorney General of Texas, to have declared void the orders of the commission which required appellant, railroad company, Houston Belt & Terminal Company, and Texas, New Orleans Railroad Company, to install .“interlocking devices” at three points where their lines of railway crossed in the city of Houston, Tex.; also to epjoin and restrain the enforcement of the orders, as well as any suit for statutory penalty for failure to obey them.

Appellees answered formally, and upon a hearing of the case, the…