State ex rel. Major v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Quo Warranto. (1) Section 17, article 2 of the Constitution, and Sec. 1062, R. S. 1899, are violated when competing railway companies enter into an agreement and combination for the purpose of fixing, regulating and maintaining freight rates or passenger fares to be charged between points located in this State.
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Quo Warranto. (1) Section 17, article 2 of the Constitution, and Sec. 1062, R. S. 1899, are violated when competing railway companies enter into an agreement and combination for the purpose of fixing, regulating and maintaining freight rates or passenger fares to be charged between points located in this State. Such agreements restrain and prevent competition, and the chief purpose sought to be accomplished by the above sections is to preserve free and open competition between and among railway companies and prohibit any and all arrangements which defeat such competition. Railroad v. State,…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
Information in the nature of quo warranto filed in this court on May 4, 1909, whereby the' State of Missouri seeks to revoke the franchises heretofore granted by it to sixteen railroad companies, on the alleged grounds that said railroad companies' have abused and perverted their corporate powers, or_ to impose a fine on said respondents in lieu of said revocation.
*43After reciting that seven of the respondent railroad companies were chartered by the State of Missouri, and the remaining nine dnly licensed to transact business in this State as foreign corporations, the information charges:
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- Koerner v. St. Louis Car Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1908
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- Eel River Railroad v. State ex rel. KistlerIndiana Supreme Court · 1900
- Mallinckrodt Chemical Works v. NemnichSupreme Court of Missouri · 1902
- Sidway v. Missouri Land & Live Stock Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1901
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- Maniaci v. Interurban Express Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1916
- Meredith v. WhillockMissouri Court of Appeals · 1913
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