Sloan v. Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Johnson County Circuit Court. I. The law impairs no provision of the contract. The word “rates” in § 12 of the Act of 1849 (Sess. Acts 1849, p. 219,) gives only the right to charge proportionate amounts. The word “toll ” 1ms the samé meaning. (N. E. Express Co. vs. Me.
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Appeal from Johnson County Circuit Court. I. The law impairs no provision of the contract. The word “rates” in § 12 of the Act of 1849 (Sess. Acts 1849, p. 219,) gives only the right to charge proportionate amounts. The word “toll ” 1ms the samé meaning. (N. E. Express Co. vs. Me. C. R. R. Co., 57 Me., 188.) This contract confers no right upon the company with which this law comes in conflict. 1. The claim of defendant, that it is specially exempt from legislation in respect to its regulation of rates, is not in terms stated in the charter, and does not exist. (Providence Bank vs. Billings. 4…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, Judge
On the first day of April, 1872, the legislature of this State passed an act entitled “ An act to prevent unjust discriminations and extortions in the rates to be charged b}'the different railroads in this State for the transportation of freights on said roads.” The first section of this act is as follows :
“No railroad corporation organized or doing business in this State, under any act of incorporation or general law of this State, now in force or which may hereafter be enacted, shall directly or indirectly charge or collect for the transportation of goods, merchandise or property on its…
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