Steenerson v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
The plaintiff, Elias Steenerson, in 1893 filed a complaint with the Railroad and Warehouse Commission, complaining that the tariff of charges of the Great Northern Railway Company for the transportation of wheat, oa.ts, barley and other grains from Crookston, Fisher and East Grand Forks, to the terminals Minneapolis, Duluth and St. Paul, were unjust and unreasonable, in that they were at least one-third too high, and asked that the same be reduced to and fixed 'at 12 cents…
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The plaintiff, Elias Steenerson, in 1893 filed a complaint with the Railroad and Warehouse Commission, complaining that the tariff of charges of the Great Northern Railway Company for the transportation of wheat, oa.ts, barley and other grains from Crookston, Fisher and East Grand Forks, to the terminals Minneapolis, Duluth and St. Paul, were unjust and unreasonable, in that they were at least one-third too high, and asked that the same be reduced to and fixed 'at 12 cents per hundred pounds between Crookston and either of said terminals, and between other stations on said railway and said…
1Opinion of the Court
OANTY, .T.
1. Chapter 10, Laws 1887, as amended by chapter 106, Laws 1891, provides that in fixing rates of transportation the state railroad and warehouse commission may act upon the complaint “of any person, firm, corporation or association, or any mercantile, agricultural or manufacturing society, or any body politic or municipal organization.” It further provides:
“If the tariff of rates, fares, charges and classifications so complained of shall be found by the evidence to be unequal or unreasonable, the commission shall state wherein they are unequal or unreasonable, and shall make a…
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