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FROST v. CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMA

No. 60.

278 U.S. 515 (1929)

FROST, DOING BUSINESS UNDER THE NAME OF MITCHELL GIN COMPANY, v. CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMA ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 18, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Robert M. Rainey and Streeter B. Flynn, with whom Mr. Calvin Jones was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. E.S. Ratliff, with whom Messrs. Edwin B. Dabney, Attorney General of Oklahoma, and J.D. Holland were on the brief, for appellees.

Mr. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant owns a cotton ginning business in the city of Durant, Oklahoma, which he operates under a permit from the State Corporation Commission. By a statute of Oklahoma, originally passed in 1915 and amended from time to time thereafter, cotton gins are declared to be public utilities and their operation for the purpose of ginning seed cotton to be a public business. Comp. Stats. 1921, § 3712. The commission...

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