Legal Opinion

Shepard v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co.

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota

Decided April 8, 1911PublishedCited by 27 opinions

' In; Equity. Bills by one Shepard against the Northern Pacific Railway Company and others, by J. S. Kennedy and others and by H. A.James against the Great Northern Railway-Company and others, and by W. Shillaber against the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad Company and others.

1Opinion of the Court

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

In the year 1906 the Northern Pacific Railway Company, the Great Northern Railway Company, and the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad Company were carrying passengers and freight within, through, and without the state of Minnesota for legal fares, rates, and charges which had been established, filed and published in accordance with the provisions of the act of Congress entitled “An act to regulate commerce,” approved February 4, 1887 (24 Stat. 381, c. 104 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3157]), and its amendments (U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1909, pp. 1135, 1138, 1139), and these…

2Cases cited76 opinions

  1. Ex Parte YoungSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  2. Gibbons v. OgdenSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
  3. Mugler v. KansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
  4. Munn v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  5. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Abilene Cotton Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1907

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. Consolidated Edison Co. v. National Labor Relations BoardSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. A. B. Kirschbaum Co. v. WallingSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
  3. Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Department of Public WorksSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
  4. Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Texas & New Orleans RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  5. Consolidated Edison Co. v. National Labor Relations BoardSupreme Court of the United States · 1938

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