State ex rel. Rhodes v. Public Service Commission
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cole Circuit Court. — Hon. J. G. Slate, Judge. (1) Section 14 of article 12 of the Constitution was appropriated by our Constitutional Convention of 1875 from the Illinois Constitution, adopted in -1870. Sec. 12, art. 11, Constitution of' Illinois; McGrew v. Mo. Pac. Ry.
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Appeal from Cole Circuit Court. — Hon. J. G. Slate, Judge. (1) Section 14 of article 12 of the Constitution was appropriated by our Constitutional Convention of 1875 from the Illinois Constitution, adopted in -1870. Sec. 12, art. 11, Constitution of' Illinois; McGrew v. Mo. Pac. Ry. Co., 230 Mo. 518. (2) Prior to the adoption of section 14 of article 12, the Legislature of the State of Illinois had directly and explicitly, by enactment, delegated to the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners of that State the power to establish “schedules of reasonable maximum rates of charges” for…
1Opinion of the CourtFaris, J.
— This is an appeal from the circuit court of Cole County in a proceeding by certiorari, to bring up to that court the record of the Public Service Commission in a certain cause wherein some four*555teen railroads doing business in Missouri sought by an application to said Public Service Commission to obtain an increase in intrastate freight and passenger rates. The Public Service Commission (hereinafter, for brevity called the Commission), which is one of the appellants herein, granted some part of the relief prayed for; ■ whereupon the relator, a citizen of Missouri, and a potential patron of…
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