MISSOURI PACIFIC RY. v. UNITED STATES

No. 108.

189 U.S. 274 (1903)

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 9, 1903.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John F. Dillon, with whom Mr. J.H. Richards, Mr. C.E. Benton, Mr. B.P. Waggener and Mr. Alexander G. Cochran were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. W.C. Perry, with whom Mr. Assistant Attorney General Beck was on the brief, for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE WHITE, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The violation of the act to regulate commerce, complained of in the amended bill, was an asserted discrimination between localities by a common carrier subject to the act, averred to operate an unjust preference or advantage to one locality over another. The right to bring the suit was expressly rested upon a request made by the Interstate...

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