State ex rel. McCue v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
North Dakota Supreme Court
Application by the State, on the relation of T. F. McCue, Attorney General, against the Northern Pacific Railway Company for injunction.
1Opinion of the CourtFisk, J.
By chapter 51, p. 73, Laws 1907, which became effective July 1, 1907 the legislative assembly of -this state amended and reenacted section 4395 Rev. Codes 1905, which establishes maximum coal rates -for the -transportation by -common carriers of -car load lots of coal within the state. It is -conceded that this statute has at all times been wholly ignored by defendant and other -carriers of freight in this state by their charging and exacting for such service higher rates than those prescribed therein; their -contention being that said statute is unconstitutional, and hence void, for the…
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