Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1899 — 1,000-MILE TICKET ACT UPSET. [ARTICLE]

1,000-MILE TICKET ACT UPSET.

Supreme Court Holds Michigan Law Is Discriminating and Invalid. The United States Supreme Court, Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Gray and McKenna dissenting, upset the Michigan law requiring railway companies to sell 1,000-mile tickets, good for two years, for S2O each. H. C. Smith applied to the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company for a ticket under the act, and the railway company refused to sell. The Supreme Court of the State decided that the law was a proper regulation of railway companies within the State and gave judgment requiring the company to sell the ticket. The company appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States.