Attorney General v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
INFORMATIONS for Writs of Injunction. These were informations filed in this court July 8, 1874, by the attorney general of this state, acting for the state, praying for writs of injunction to restrain the two defendant companies from exacting tolls for the carriage of passengers or freight in excess of the maximum rates established bych. 273, laws of 1874. "When these proceedings were commenced, there were pending in this court informations in the nature of •quo warranto,…
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INFORMATIONS for Writs of Injunction. These were informations filed in this court July 8, 1874, by the attorney general of this state, acting for the state, praying for writs of injunction to restrain the two defendant companies from exacting tolls for the carriage of passengers or freight in excess of the maximum rates established bych. 273, laws of 1874. "When these proceedings were commenced, there were pending in this court informations in the nature of •quo warranto, filed by the attorney general June 2, 1874, against the same defendants severally, to have a forfeiture of their charters…
1Opinion of the Court
■Ryan, C. J.
These causes, although before the court now on motion only, are of high importance, for both the interests and the principles which they involve. Most of the questions to be passed upon were elaborately argued with much learning and ability at the bar, and all have been patiently and laboriously considered by ns, in view of the gravity and delicacy of the decision which we have to make.
*512I I. The first question to be settled, and the one which has given us the greatest difficulty to settle, is the jurisdiction of this court to entertain the informations in these causes.
Since the…
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