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SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMM.

No. 275.

215 U.S. 226 (1909)

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 6, 1909.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Maxwell Evarts, with whom Mr. F.C. Dillard, Mr. W.W. Cotton, Mr. P.F. Dunne and Mr. Robert S. Lovett were on the brief, for the Southern Pacific Company.

Mr. Wade H. Ellis, Assistant to the Attorney-General, with whom Mr. Luther M. Walter and Mr. Edwin P. Grosvenor, Special Assistants to the Attorney-General, were on the brief, for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.

This case comes here upon a certificate of the three judges of the Circuit Court for the Northern District of California under § 1 of the expediting act of February 11, 1903, c. 544, 32 Stat. 823, as construed by them.

The suit was brought by the railroad companies in the Circuit Court to restrain the enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which established a maximum...

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