SOUTHERN PAC. CO. v. PETERSON

Nos. 196, 195.

43 F.2d 198 (1930)

SOUTHERN PAC. CO. v. PETERSON, Atty. Gen. of Arizona. ATCHISON, T. & S. F. RY. CO. v. SAME.

District Court, D. Arizona.

July 7, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alex B. Baker and Louis B. Whitney, both of Phœnix, Ariz. (Guy V. Shoup and Henly C. Booth, both of San Francisco, Cal., of counsel), for plaintiff Southern Pac. Company.

L. H. Chalmers, H. M. Fennemore, and Thomas G. Nairn, all of Phœnix, Ariz., and Robert Brennan, of Los Angeles, Cal. (E. E. McInnis and H. W. Davis, both of Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for plaintiff Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co.

K. Berry Peterson, Atty. Gen. of Arizona, Charles L. Strouss, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Arizona, and Donald R. Richberg, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. of Illinois, for defendant.


JACOBS, District Judge.

These suits were commenced by the plaintiffs in the Phœnix division of the United States District Court of the District of Arizona. In each case, the plaintiff seeks to permanently enjoin the Attorney General of the State of Arizona from enforcing what is known as the Arizona Train Limit Law approved by the Governor on May 16, 1912, and also seeks temporary injunction. This law makes it unlawful for any railroad company in the state of...

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