Darnell v. Edwards
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OP MISSISSIPPI. The case is stated in tlie opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
Appellant filed his bill in the District Court against the members of the Mississippi Railroad Commission, an administrative body having the usual powers, in which he sought relief by injunction against an order prescribing maximum rates on logs in carload lots transported in intrastate commerce, upon a railroad operated by him; the ground of his complaint being that the rates were so low as to be confiscatory and therefore violative of the due process of law'provision of the Fourteenth Amend ment. The court refused a preliminary injunction (209 Fed. Rep. 99), and, upon final hearing,…
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