Mississippi Railroad Commission v. Gulf, M. & N. R. Co.

This is an appeal from a final decree of the chancery court wherein' the establishment of a rate on sand and gravel by the railroad commission on July 5, 1932, was permanently enjoined as to the prescribed rates on said articles moving over two or more lines of railroad; said rates being ten cents per ton higher than that moving over-a single line of railroad, or what is known in this proceeding as “joint line arbitrary.” The court held that this differential, or “joint line arbitrary,” was unreasonable, unjustified, and unenforceable.

In 1931, the railroad commission proceeded to revise the…