Legal Opinion
Michigan Cent. R. v. Michigan Public Utilities Commission
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided January 24, 1921PublishedCited by 4 opinions
In Equity. Suit by the Michigan Central Railroad Company against the Michigan Public Utilities Commission, Merlin Wiley, Attorney General of Michigan, and others. On motion for preliminary injunction.
1Per curiam
This is an application for a preliminary injunction, heard before three judges pursuant to section 266 of the Judicial Code (Comp. St. § 1243).
For several years before 1919, the Michigan statute had fixed the rate for intrastate railroad passenger transportation (with exceptions not now material) at the sum of 2 cents per mile. Act No. 382 of the Public Acts of 1919, approved May 13, 1919, fixed it at 2^ cents per mile (with similar exceptions), but contained this proviso: •
“This act shall not apply to any railroad, the control of which has been taken over by the federal government, while…
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