SOUTHERN PACIFIC v. INTERSTATE COM. COM.

Nos. 158, 159, 160, 161, 162.

200 U.S. 536 (1906)

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RAILWAY COMPANY v. SAME. ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY v. SAME. SANTA FE PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. SAME. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 26, 1906.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Robert Dunlap, with whom Mr. Thomas J. Norton and Mr. Gardiner Lathrop were on the brief, for appellants, Southern California Railway Company, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, and Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company. Mr. Maxwell Evarts, with whom Mr. Robert S. Lovett was on the brief, for appellant, Southern Pacific Company.

Mr. Joseph H. Call, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, and Mr. Llewellyn A. Shaver, Solicitor for the Interstate Commerce Commission, for the Commission.


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

Although there are separate proceedings in these various cases, the question arising in all is identical and the cases will hereafter be spoken of as if there were but one proceeding before the court. The single question presented is, has the carrier that takes the fruit from the shipper in California the right, under the facts...

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