CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & c. R'Y v. TOMPKINS

No. 131.

176 U.S. 167 (1900)

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY v. TOMPKINS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Argued November 1, 1899.

Decided January 22, 1900.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. A.B. Kittredge and Mr. George R. Peck for appellant.

Mr. T.H. Null and Mr. John L. Pyle for appellees. Mr. W.O. Temple was on their brief.


MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the court.

Few cases are more difficult or perplexing than those which involve an inquiry whether the rates prescribed by a state legislature for the carriage of passengers and freight are unreasonable. And yet this difficulty affords no excuse for a failure to examine and solve the questions involved. It has often been said that this is a government of laws and not of men; and by this court, in Yick Wo v. Hopkins...

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