Consumers' League v. Colorado & Southern Railway Co.

The plaintiff in error, a domestic corporation, began a proceeding before the state railroad commission, relating to freight rates on coal from the northern Colorado- coal fields to Denver. From the order made by the commission, the defendants in error appealed to the district court. There the companies, concerned filed a motion to- reverse the order of the commission and to dismiss the complaint. The court sustained the motion and. dismissed the complaint upon the ground that the law under which the order of the commission was made, was unconstitutional and -void, and adjudged that all acts…