TEX. & PAC. RY. v. LOUISIANA R.R. COMM.

No. 186.

232 U.S. 338 (1914)

TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF LOUISIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 24, 1914.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thomas J. Freeman for appellant, submitted.

Mr. Wylie M. Barrow, with whom Mr. Ruffin G. Pleasant, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, was on the brief, for appellees.


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

Appellant, a corporation organized under the laws of the United States, filed its bill in equity in the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to restrain the enforcement of an order of the Louisiana Railroad Commission fixing rates for the carriage of cotton-seed and its products, on the ground that the order exceeded the powers conferred upon the Commission by the state law, indeed, was so...

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