State ex rel. Railroad & Warehouse Commission v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.

This is a proceeding by mandamus, to compel this respondent to comply with an order of the railroad and warehouse commission of this state, prescribing rates for the transportation of freight over the respondent’s line of road from the city of Duluth to the city of Mankato, both of- which are within this state. The only question now presented for decision is as to the jurisdiction of our railroad and warehouse commission to make this order, in view of the circumstances to which we now refer. The line of railroad operated by the respondent, and over which its business of transportation between…