Missouri Rate Cases
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS AND CROSS APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT-OF THE. UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. Appeals and cross-appeals from decrees, of the Circuit Court entered March 8, 1909, as amended April 17, 1909, adjudging the maximum freight rate acts, passed by the legislature of the State of Missouri, April 15, 1905, Laws, p. 102, and March 19,1907, Laws, p. 171, and the maximum passenger fare act passed February 27, 1907, Laws, p. 170, to be confiscatory, and…
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APPEALS AND CROSS APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT-OF THE. UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. Appeals and cross-appeals from decrees, of the Circuit Court entered March 8, 1909, as amended April 17, 1909, adjudging the maximum freight rate acts, passed by the legislature of the State of Missouri, April 15, 1905, Laws, p. 102, and March 19,1907, Laws, p. 171, and the maximum passenger fare act passed February 27, 1907, Laws, p. 170, to be confiscatory, and enjoining their enforcement. • 168 Fed. Rep. 317. Eighteen suits, brought by as many railroad companies, were begun in June,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
1. The contention of the appellants that the court erred in permitting the filing of the amended and supplemental bills is without merit. Although the commodity rate act of 1907 repealed that of 1905, it saved the penalties and liabilities incurred under the repealed statute. Both the original and supplemental bills proceeded upon the broad ground that the returns of the companies from their intrastate business, prior to the act of. 1905, were unreasonably low and that any reduction in rates would only diminish the income already inadequate. The additional legislation pending the suits,- and…
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