Union Pacific Railroad v. Bean

This suit was instituted by Union Pacific Railroad Company, Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Company and Union Railroad of Oregon, all corporations, against the defendants, Ormond R. Bean as public utilities commissioner of Oregon and I. H. Yan Winkle as attorney general of Oregon, for a declaratory judgment as to the authority of the commissioner under § 113-116, O. C. L. A. (chapter 59, Laws 1913), to order the suspension of proposed reduced intrastate rates contained in a schedule filed by the railroad companies with the commissioner, pending an investigation and determination of the…