Southern Pac. Co. v. Eshelman
District Court, N.D. California
In Equity. Suit by the Southern Pacific Company against John M. Eshelman and others, constituting the Railroad Commission of California, and others.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN FLEET, District Judge.
This is a bill seeking to restrain the Railroad Commission of the state, its attorney, and certain other officers charged with the enforcement of the Public Utilities Act of the state (St. Cal. 1911 [Ex. Sess.] p. 18), approved December 23, 1911, from asserting the right to enforce, as against plaintiff, a nonresident corporation engaged as a common carrier by railroad in local and interstate commerce in this and various other states, the provisions of that act in certain respects. Stated in a briéf and very general way, the particular transaction counted upon as…
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