Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. Burr v. Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided July 5, 1926PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEllis, J.
These two cases were by agreement argued together. They involve the same questions and grew out of the refusal of the respective railroad companies to put into effect certain freight rates and charges prescribed by the Railroad Commissioners for the intrastate transportation of “petroleum and pétroleum products” from Jacksonville and Tampa, Florida, to points or stations upon the respective lines of the respondents in the State of Florida.
The allegations of the alternative writs relating to the intra transportation of “petroleum and petroleum products ’ ’ are in substance: that large…
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