Beal v. Missouri Pacific R. Corp.

The question is whether respondent, plaintiff in the district court below, has established a cause of action in equity entitling it to a decree enjoining petitioners, the Attorney General of Nebraska and other state officers from prosecuting respondent’s agents and officers in the state courts for criminal violations of the Nebraska Full Train Crew Law, § 74-519 Comp. Stat. of Nebraska, 1929.

The statute makes it unlawful for any railroad in Nebraska to operate any passenger train of more than five cars “with a crew consisting of less than one engineer, one fireman, one conductor, one brakeman…