Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Ketchum
District Court, S.D. Iowa
In Equity. Suit by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company against N. S. Ketchum, D. J. Palmer, and Clifford Thorne, as members of the Board of Iowa Railroad Commissioners, George-Cosson, as Attorney General of Iowa, and J. H. Henderson, as Commerce Counsel for said state, with seven other cases. On motions for preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
In 1874, by chapter 68 of the Acts of the Fifteenth General Assembly of Iowa, all railroads in this state were classified as follows:
Class C includes all roads whose gross annual earnings per mile are less than $3,000.
*987Class B includes all whose gross annual earnings are $3,000 per mile or over, but less than $4,000 per mile.
Class A includes all whose gross annual earnings are $4,000 per mile or more per annum.
_ This classification has been maintained and still constitutes the classification prescribed by statute. Section 2076, Supplement to Code.
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