Fletcher Paper Co. v. Detroit & Mackinac Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Bay; Coumans, J. Separate actions of assumpsit by the Fletcher Paper Company and others against the Detroit & Mackinac Railway Company for excessive freight charges. Judgments for plaintiffs. All parties bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtOstrander, J.
(after stating the facts). The Michigan railroad commission determined that certain rates (charges) theretofore published and exacted from shippers by defendant were unreasonable and ought not to be exacted, and that certain other rates (charges) were and would be reasonable and proper to be exacted and should thereafter be exacted. The action of the commission furnished for the. benefit of any and every shipper evidence that the old rates were illegal, the new rates reasonable and lawful. Although liable to be set aside by the courts, the result of what the commission did was a legislative…
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