PORTLAND RY. CO. v. OREGON R.R. COMM.

No. 119.

229 U.S. 397 (1913)

PORTLAND RAILWAY, LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY v. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF OREGON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 10, 1913.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Franklin T. Griffith and Mr. Joseph S. Clark, with whom Mr. Frederick V. Holman was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. A.M. Crawford, Attorney General of the State of Oregon, and Mr. Clyde B. Aitchison, with whom Mr. R.R. Giltner and Mr. R.M. Sewell were on the brief, for defendant in error.


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

The contentions of violation of Federal right alleged to have been set up and denied in the state court and therefore to be reviewable here arise under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, securing due process of law and equal protection of the laws as against state action.

The statute under which the Railroad Commission acted in this case provides:

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