Legal Opinion

Detroit & Mackinac Railway Co. v. Michigan Railroad Commission

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided July 22, 1912No. Docket No. 98PublishedCited by 22 opinions

Appeal from Wayne; Murfin, J. Bill by the Detroit & Mackinac Railway Company against tbe Michigan railroad commission to review orders fixing certain freight rates of the Detroit & Mackinac Railway Company for timber and forest products. The Onaway Shingle & Tie Company and others intervened as complainants; the Fletcher Paper Company and others as defendants. From a decree for defendants, said complainant and interveners appeal.

1Opinion of the CourtOstrander, J.

To the Michigan railroad commission four complaints were made against the complainant, the Detroit & Mackinaw Railway Company, three of them by the Fletcher Paper Company of Alpena, Mich., the other *338by F. W. Gilchrist, Churchill Lumber Company, and Island Mill Lumber Company. Three complaints were answered by the railway company, a hearing was had, and the commission made three separate orders, one of them a supplemental order, dated, respectively, October 19, 1909, October 22, 1909, and November 3, 1909. In November of the same year, the railway company, being dissatisfied with the said…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Smyth v. AmesSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
  2. Armour Packing Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  3. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Interstate Commerce CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  4. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Alabama Midland Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1897
  5. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Chicago Great Western Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1908

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. v. Public Service CommissionMichigan Supreme Court · 1973
  2. Michigan Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Service CommissionMichigan Supreme Court · 1946
  3. City of Detroit v. Michigan Railroad CommissionMichigan Supreme Court · 1920
  4. Michigan Public Utilities Commission v. Michigan State Telephone Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1924
  5. Union Pacific Railroad v. Public Utilities CommissionSupreme Court of Kansas · 1915

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