State v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

This action was commenced in this court to recover the sum of $435,000 claimed by the state from the Missouri Pacific Railway Company on account of nineteen alleged violations of the act of 1893, commonly known as the “Maximum Freight Rate Law.” No question is made as to the validity of the statute, and the defendant, by its counsel, disclaims any wish or intention to evade responsibility for the acts described in the petition. It denies, however, that the case is one which this court has original authority to hear and determine. The argument urged in support of the jurisdictional objection…