ATCHISON, T. & S. F. RY. CO. v. LA PRADE

Nos. 195, 196.

2 F.Supp. 855 (1933)

ATCHISON, T. & S. F. RY. CO. v. LA PRADE, Atty. Gen. SOUTHERN PAC. CO. v. SAME.

District Court, D. Arizona.

March 8, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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.

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. 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.

Before JACOBS and ST. SURE, District Judges, and WILBUR, Circuit Judge


JACOBS, District Judge.

These suits were instituted in the Phœnix division of the District Court of the United States, district of Arizona. They seek to enjoin the Attorney General of the state from enforcing what is styled as the Arizona Train Limit Law, passed and approved May 16, 1912, which prohibits any railroad in Arizona from operating passenger trains consisting of more than fourteen cars, and freight trains of more than seventy cars, exclusive of caboose...

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