State ex rel. Caldwell v. American Railway Express Co.
South Dakota Supreme Court
Original action by the State of .South Dakota on the relation -of Clarence C. Caldwell, as Attorney General, arid1 the State Board of Railway Commissioners, against the American Railway Express ■Company and others, to permanently restrain defendants from putting into effect their proposed schedule of intrastate express rates. Tanporary injunction pendente lite, granted.
1Opinion of the CourtMdGOY, J.
This is an original action instituted in this court by the Attorney General and the Railway Commission, in the name of the state of South Dakota, seeking to permanently restrain the American Railway Express Company, and other express companies doing ¡business in this state, from putting into effect a certain proposed schedule of • intrastate express rates, materially increasing the intrastate rates heretofore existing, which proposed schedule of intrastate rates it is alleged said express companies intend and threaten to make effective from: and after January i, 1919. Plaintiff 'also prayed…
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