Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Wharton
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. The railroad company, plaintiff in error, brings the case here to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of South Carolina, which granted a mandamus to compel the company to stop certain of its through trains running • between Jersey City, New Jersey, and Tampa, Florida, at a station on its road called Latta, in the State of South Carolina, near the boundary line between that State and the State of North…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. The railroad company, plaintiff in error, brings the case here to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of South Carolina, which granted a mandamus to compel the company to stop certain of its through trains running • between Jersey City, New Jersey, and Tampa, Florida, at a station on its road called Latta, in the State of South Carolina, near the boundary line between that State and the State of North Carolina. Upon a request filed with him by the Railroad Commission of South Carolina, the Attorney General of that…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Peckham,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the' opinion of the court.
The questions of the validity of state statutes and orders of state railroad commissions, directing the stoppage of through interstate trains, have frequently, within late years, been before this court. The last case is that of Mississippi Railroad Commission v. Illinois Central Railroad Company, 203 U. S. 335, where the prior cases are referred to. See also Atlantic Coast &c. v. North Carolina Commission, 206 U. S. 1.
That any exercise of state authority, in whatever form manifested, which- directly…
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