Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad v. Mississippi
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. This is a bill in equity, brought by the State of Mississippi and the Railroad Commission of that State, to require the railroad companies to construct their railroad through the county seat of Pontotoc County, State of Mississippi, and to restrain them from abandoning a portion of the narrow gauge railroad formerly operated by the Gulf and Chicago Railroad Company, which ran to the town of Pontotoc.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. This is a bill in equity, brought by the State of Mississippi and the Railroad Commission of that State, to require the railroad companies to construct their railroad through the county seat of Pontotoc County, State of Mississippi, and to restrain them from abandoning a portion of the narrow gauge railroad formerly operated by the Gulf and Chicago Railroad Company, which ran to the town of Pontotoc. The following is a summary of the bill: The Railroad Commission exists under the laws of the State of Mississippi, and is, under the laws,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
The defendant railroad companies in their motion to dissolve the temporary injunction urged as grounds thereof, among others, that the injunction imposed a direct and unnecessary burden upon and was an interference with interstate commerce and an interference with the carrying of United States mail. To those grounds the court did not apparently respond, and the Supreme Court did not refer to them in either of its opinions.
Counter contentions are urged. Plaintiffs in error contend that the Federal questions set up by them were evaded. Defendants in error contend that such questions were not…
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