Northern Pac. Ry. Co. v. Keyes

AMIDON, District Judge.

Chapter 115 of the Laws of North Dakota for the year 1897 empowers the board of railroad commissioners of that state to fix a schedule of maximum rates for the transportation of persons and property within its limits by common carriers, and makes it a crime punishable by fine of not less than $1,000, nor more than $10,000, for any carrier to charge more than the rates thus prescribed. The statute requires the board to serve the schedule of rates prepared by them upon the common carriers to be affected thereby, and to publish notice in a newspaper in each of the judicial…