Mellon v. Minneapolis, St. P. &. S. S. M. Ry. Co.

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

Appellee, plaintiff below, filed its bill praying an injunction to restrain defendant, Andrew W. Mellon, tbe Secretary of the Treasury, from requiring it to pay the wages of customs inspectors at night, on Sunday, and on holidays, who inspect the baggage of passengers on plaintiff’s trains at the Canadian border. Plaintiff also seeks to restrain the threatened refusal of defendant to permit plaintiff’s trains to enter the United States.

It appears that plaintiff operates three railroad lines entering the United States from Canada: One line from Winnipeg to St.…