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NOR. PACIFIC v. DEPT. PUBLIC WORKS

No. 371.

268 U.S. 39 (1925)

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY ET AL. v. THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 13, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. C.W. Bunn, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. F.M. Dudley, with whom Mr. O.W. Dynes was on the brief, for Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company.

Messrs. Raymond W. Clifford and Scott; Z. Henderson, for defendants in error. Mr. John H. Dunbar, Attorney General of the State of Washington, and Mr. Stephen V. Carey, were on the brief.

Messrs. George T. Reid and Lorenzo B. da Ponte were on the brief, for Northern Pacific Railway Company; Messrs. Frederic G. Dorety and Thomas Balmer for the Great Northern Railway Company; and Messrs. Arthur C. Spencer and William A. Robbins for the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The intrastate transportation of saw logs in car load lots constitutes a large part of all of the intrastate freight traffic in Washington on each of the four transcontinental railroad systems by which much of that service is performed.1 Prior to federal control the rates had, with few exceptions, been initiated from time to time by individual...

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