Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1907 — A Rate Law Test Case. [ARTICLE]

A Rate Law Test Case.

That State control of interstate railroads has ceased by virtue of the Hepburn rate law is the broad ground of an appeal to the federal courts now made by the Missouri Pacific railroad from a writ issued by the Supreme Court of Kansas. The writ was issued in favor of the Larrabee Milling Company of Stafford, Kan., to compel the Missouri Pacific to continue the practice of delivering cars to the mill over Santa Fe tracks, which cross at that point, at the old rate of $2 a car. It was conceded that three-fifths of the mill's business was interstate. The defendant railroad now asserts that the Shate court has no jurisdiction, and that the road is wholly under the control of the Interstate Commerce Commission.