Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Love
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Oklahoma
In Kquity. Suits by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Pe 11 ail way Company, by the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Pé Railway Company, and by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company against J. P,. Love, James J. McAlcster, and A. P. Watson, members of the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma, Charles .West, Attorney General of Oklahoma, and others. On pleas by defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
These are suits by railroad companies doing business in the state of Oklahoma to enjoin the enforcement of certain freight and passenger rates, upon the ground, among others, that after the test of experience they have proved to be so unreasonably low as to amount to a confiscation of their jmoperty, contrary to the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The defendants are the members of the Corporation Commission, the Attorney General of the state, and certain citizens who are alleged to be representative shippers and passengers. The freight rates…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Willcox v. Consolidated Gas Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1909
- City of Knoxville v. Knoxville Water Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Lawrence v. NelsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Spencer v. WatkinsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1909
3Cited by11 opinions
- Prendergast v. New York Telephone Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Love v. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1911
- Chicago Rys. Co. v. Illinois Commerce CommissionDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1922
- Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. v. LoveDistrict Court, W.D. Oklahoma · 1910
- St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. v. AllenU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Arkansas · 1911
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