Texas v. Eastern Texas Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. The first of these cases is an appeal from a decree of the District Court for the Western District of Texas dismissing a suit removed from a court of that State, in which the State of Texas sought to enjoin the-above-named railroad company and some of its officers from ceasing to operate its road in intrastate commerce. The other is an appeal from a decree of the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas dismissing…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
delivered thé opinion of the court.
By § 402 of the Transportation Act of 1920, c. 91, 41 ¡3tat. 456, 477, several new paragraphs were added, to § 1 of the Act to Regulate Commerce as theretofore amended. Paragraphs 18,19 and 20 are copied in the margin. 1 By them Congress has undertaken to regulate the construe-, tion and acquisition of new or additional lines of railroad and the extension and abandonment of old lines, and to invest the Interstate Commerce' Commission with important administrative powers in that connection. Like the act of which they are amendatory, these paragraphs are…
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