State & Port Authority v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

Matson, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment of the district court vacating, as unreasonable and unlawful, an order of the state railroad and warehouse commission (hereinafter called the commission) fixing maximum intrastate rates to be charged by carriers for the switching of carload traffic from points on the tracks of the barge terminal owned and operated by the Port Authority of the city of St. Paul to industries and connecting tracks located within an area designated by the commission as the St. Paul switching district.

We are primarily concerned with the fundamental issue of whether, in the…