Arkansas Railroad Commission v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad

Mr. Justice Brandéis

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a direct appeal from a final decree of the federal court for eastern Arkansas granting an injunction under paragraph 3 of § 238 of the Judicial Code as amended by the Act of February 13, 1925. The plaintiff below was the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad; the defendants the Arkansas Railroad Commission and a state prosecuting attorney. The controversy concerns an order of the state commission which suspends for examination an intrastate commodity tariff, framed on the mileage basis, which had been filed by the Railroad to…