State Ex Rel. Corporation Commission v. Cannon Manufacturing Co.

GuaeK, O. J.,

concurring: When it was laid down by the Supreme Court of the United States in the “Slaughter House Gases ” and cases *34based thereon, that the states had the fullest right to supervise the operation of corporations and regulate their rates, charges, and conduct, it made a great change in the conception of the powers of the Government and the subordination of corporations to control. The case now before the Court is second in importance probably to none that has come before us, for it recognizes to the fullest extent the power and the duty of the State to regulate and control the…