Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Hardwick Farmers Elevator Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. A statute passed by the legislature of the State of Minnesota and known as the Minnesota Reciprocal De-murrage Law, became effective on July 1, 1907. Laws of Minnesota, 1907, chapter 23. The law, among other things, made it the duty of a railway company subject to its provisions, on demand by a shipper, to furnish cars for transportation of freight, at terminal points on its line of road in Minnesota within forty-eight…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. A statute passed by the legislature of the State of Minnesota and known as the Minnesota Reciprocal De-murrage Law, became effective on July 1, 1907. Laws of Minnesota, 1907, chapter 23. The law, among other things, made it the duty of a railway company subject to its provisions, on demand by a shipper, to furnish cars for transportation of freight, at terminal points on its line of road in Minnesota within forty-eight hours and at intermediate points within seventy-two hours after such demand, Sundays and legal holidays excepted. For each…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
The argument at bar has been primarily concerned with the question of the validity of the Minnesota statute, considered as having been enacted in the exercise of a power assumed to exist to legislate reasonably in the absence of action by Congress on the subject of the delivery when called for, of cars to be used in interstate traffic. • Thus counsel for the defendant in error urges the correctness of the action of the Supreme Court of Minnesota in sustaining the statute upon the hypothesis that Congress had not legislated on the subject and that the act was a reasonable exertion of the power…
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