MISSOURI PACIFIC RY. CO. v. TUCKER

No. 52.

230 U.S. 340 (1913)

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. TUCKER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 16, 1913.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Bailie P. Waggener for plaintiff in error.

Mr. John S. Dawson, Attorney General of Kansas, Mr. S.N. Hawkes, Mr. Richard Henry Towne and Mr. John W. Tucker, pro se, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

By an act of February 17, 1905, the legislature of the State of Kansas prescribed a schedule of maximum rates to be charged by common carriers for the transportation, between points in that State, of "illuminating oil, gasoline, fuel oil, or crude petroleum, in cans, barrels, tanks or tank cars," and provided that every such carrier "which shall demand, exact or...

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