Starr v. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska
In Equity.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is a demurrer to a supplemental bill of the complainants, which discloses these facts: In 1893 the legislature of the state of Nebraska passed an act commonly called the “Maximum Freight Rate Law,” which named certain rates of transportation, required the railway companies operating in that state to reduce their rates to those there prescribed, and provided that they should become liable to severe penalties for any failure to comply with its provisions. Comp. St. Neb. 1893, c. 72, art. 12. The complainants were stockholders of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific…
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