THE MINNESOTA RATE CASES

Nos. 291, 292, 293.

230 U.S. 352 (1913)

THE MINNESOTA RATE CASES. SIMPSON ET AL., CONSTITUTING THE RAILROAD AND WAREHOUSE COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA v. SHEPARD. SAME v. KENNEDY. SAME v. SHILLABER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 9, 1913.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thomas D. O'Brien for appellants.

Mr. Edward T. Young, also for the appellants.

Mr. George T. Simpson, Attorney General of the State of Minnesota, and Mr. Lyndon A. Smith were on the brief, for appellants:

Mr. Clifford Thorne, Mr. H.T. Clarke, Jr., Mr. Geo. A. Henshaw, Mr. John Marshall, Mr. Royal C. Johnson, Mr. P.W. Dougherty, Mr. Grant G. Martin, Mr. U.G. Powell, Mr. John H. Henderson, Mr. Dwight N. Lewis, Mr. William D. Williams, Mr. W.H. Stutsman and Mr. H.R. Oglesby, by leave of the court, filed a brief as amici curiae on behalf of the Railroad Commissions of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Missouri and Texas:

Mr. Charles W. Bunn for appellees.

Mr. Pierce Butler, with whom Mr. Hale Holden, Mr. Jared How and Mr. William D. Mitchell were on the brief, also for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the court.

These suits were brought by stockholders of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, the Great Northern Railway Company and the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company, respectively, to restrain the enforcement of two orders of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Minnesota and two acts of the legislature of that State prescribing maximum charges for...

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