Southern Pac. Co. v. Campbell
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Oregon
Tn Equity. Bill by the Southern Pacific Company and another against Thos. K. Campbell and others, constituting the Railroad Commission of Oregon, and A. M. Crawford, the Attorney General of the State of Oregon.
1Opinion of the Court
BEAN, District Judge.
This suit has been submitted on a demurrer to a bill to enjoin the enforcement of an order of the State Railroad Commission fixing certain class rates from Portland south over the lines for the Oregon & California Railroad Company, operated by the Southern Pacific Company, as lessee.
In September, 1910, the commission upon due investigation, and after a hearing by the complainant company, found that certain enumerated class rates on freight from Portland south to various stations in Oregon, then in force on complainant’s lines, were unjust, unreasonable, and excessive, and…
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