Stone v. Natchez, Jackson & Columbus Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Hinds County. Hon. E. G. Peyton, Chancellor. The bill in this case, filed by the Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad Company against J. M. Stone and others, Railroad Commissioners, like that in Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Co. v. Stone et al., Railroad Commissioners, ante 607, complains that the act of March 11,1884, entitled “ An act to provide for the regulation of freight and passenger rates on railroads in this State, and to…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Hinds County. Hon. E. G. Peyton, Chancellor. The bill in this case, filed by the Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad Company against J. M. Stone and others, Railroad Commissioners, like that in Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Co. v. Stone et al., Railroad Commissioners, ante 607, complains that the act of March 11,1884, entitled “ An act to provide for the regulation of freight and passenger rates on railroads in this State, and to create a commission to supervise the same, and for other purposes,” is unconstitutional, and that its enforcement will…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, C. J.
The views announced in Railroad Commissioners v. Yazoo and Miss. Valley R. R. Co., ante 607, dispose of all of the objections of the appellee to the act creating the railroad commission, except as relates to the constitutional inhibition upon the State to pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.
The appellee is authorized by its charter “ from time to time to fix, regulate, and receive tolls and charges by them to be received *653for transportation of persons and property.” Annexed to every such grant is the implied condition that the charges shall be reasonable, because that is the…
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