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TEXAS v. INTERSTATE COM. COMM.

No. 24, Original.

258 U.S. 158 (1922)

STATE OF TEXAS v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION AND RAILROAD LABOR BOARD.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 6, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Tom L. Beauchamp, with whom Mr. C.M. Cureton, Attorney General of the State of Texas, Mr. W.A. Keeling, Mr. Walace Hawkins and Mr. John E. Benton were on the brief, for complainant.

Mr. Solicitor General Beck, with whom Mr. Robert P. Reeder was on the brief, for the Railroad Labor Board.

Mr. P.J. Farrell for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Mr. Alfred P. Thom, for the Association of Railway Executives, as amicus curiae, by special leave of court.

Mr. N.A. Stedman, Mr. E.B. Perkins and Mr. Daniel Upthegrove, by leave of court, filed a brief on behalf of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, as amici curiae.

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

This is a bill in equity brought in this court by the State of Texas against the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Railroad Labor Board. The relief sought is, first, a declaration that the main provisions1 of Titles III and IV of the Transportation Act of 1920, c. 91, 41 Stat. 456, 469, 474, are unconstitutional and void, secondly...

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