Interstate Commerce Commission v. Alabama Midland Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE OXROUXT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH circuit. ON the 27th day of June, 1892, the Board of Trade of Troy, Alabama, filed a complaint before the Interstate Commerce Commission at "Washington, D. C., against the Alabama Midland Railway Company and the Georgia Central Railroad Company and their connections, claiming that in the rates charged for transportation of property by the railroad companies mentioned and their connecting lines there was a discrimination…
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APPEAL FROM THE OXROUXT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH circuit. ON the 27th day of June, 1892, the Board of Trade of Troy, Alabama, filed a complaint before the Interstate Commerce Commission at "Washington, D. C., against the Alabama Midland Railway Company and the Georgia Central Railroad Company and their connections, claiming that in the rates charged for transportation of property by the railroad companies mentioned and their connecting lines there was a discrimination against the town of Troy, in violation of the terms and provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act of Congress of 1887.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shibas
Several of the assignments of error complain of the action of the Circuit Court of Appeals in not rendering a decree for the enforcement of those portions of the order of the Interstate Commerce Commission which prescribed rates, to be thereafter charged by the defendant companies, for services performed in the transportation of goods.
Discussion of those assignments is rendered ufinecessary by the recent decisions of this court, wherein it has been held, *162after elaborate argument, that Congress has not conferred upon the Interstate Commerce Commission the legislative power of prescribing…
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