SULTAN RY. CO. v. DEPT. OF LABOR

Nos. 274 and 275.

277 U.S. 135 (1928)

SULTAN RAILWAY & TIMBER COMPANY v. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON ET AL. ECLIPSE MILL COMPANY v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 14, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederic E. Fuller, with whom Messrs. James W. McBurney and John H. O'Brien were on the brief, submitted for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Mark H. Wight, with whom Mr. John H. Dunbar was on the brief, for defendants in error.


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

These suits present the same questions, were heard together and may be disposed of in one opinion, as they were below.

They were brought to restrain the enforcement of an order, legislative in character, made by a state bureau — the objection to the order being that it is repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States in that it impinges on the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction...

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