Arkansas Railroad Commission v. Bovay

This case originated in the Pulaski Chancery Court on a bill for an injunction against the Arkansas Railroad Commission to restrain that body from hearing a certain petition filed before it by J. C. Childers, county judge of Lawrence County, and other persons, asking the Commission to regulate and fix the tolls to be charged on a certain toll bridge spanning Black River, on State Highways Nos. 63, 67 and 25, at Powhatan, Lawrence County, Arkansas, on the grounds that the schedule of rates fixed in the franchise under which the bridge was constructed is excessive and discriminatory, and that…