Steenerson v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Elias Steenerson, a resident of Polk county and a shipper of grain from Crookston, Fisher, and East Grand Forks to Minneapolis and Duluth, in behalf of himself and all others similarly situated in Polk, Marshall, and Kittson counties, in September, 1898, filed a complaint with the railroad and warehouse commission, in which he alleged that the rate charged by defendant railway company for transporting grain and the mill products thereof between Crookston and the terminal…
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Elias Steenerson, a resident of Polk county and a shipper of grain from Crookston, Fisher, and East Grand Forks to Minneapolis and Duluth, in behalf of himself and all others similarly situated in Polk, Marshall, and Kittson counties, in September, 1898, filed a complaint with the railroad and warehouse commission, in which he alleged that the rate charged by defendant railway company for transporting grain and the mill products thereof between Crookston and the terminal points of Minneapolis and Duluth was 16J cents per 100 pounds and between Fisher and East Grand Forks and said terminals…
1Opinion of the CourtCollins, J.
On proceedings had upon the complaint of Elias Steenerson the railroad and warehouse commission of this state made an order reducing the rates to be charged by the Great Northern Railway Company for carrying grain from Crookston to terminal points, and the company appealed to the district court for Ramsey county. Thereupon the Northern Pacific and two other railway companies made application to the court to file complaints in intervention. The first-named company, in the hands of receivers appointed by the federal courts in proceedings to foreclose certain mortgages, was allowed to file its…
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