State v. Adams Express Co.

This is an action in equity by which the state of Nebraska, as plaintiff, has invoked the original jurisdiction of this court to enjoin the defendant (the Adams Express Company) from charging or receiving for services between places in Nebraska any sum in excess of 75 per cent, of certain charges exacted by defendant under its schedule of rates in force on the 1st day of January, 1907. The reduction of rates in question was sought to be accomplished by an act of the legislative assembly of that year (laws 1907, ch. 91), which reads as follows:

“Section 1. All persons, associations or…