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ATLANTIC COAST LINE v. WHARTON

No. 36.

207 U.S. 328 (1907)

28 S.Ct. 121

52 L.Ed. 230

ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY v. WHARTON et al., RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 9, 1907.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. P.A. Willcox and Mr. Frederic D. McKenney, with whom Mr. Alexander Hamilton, Mr. George B. Elliott, Mr. F.L. Willcox and Mr. Henry E. Davis were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. M.C. Woods, with whom Mr. J. Fraser Lyon, Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, was on the brief, for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The questions of the validity of state statutes and orders of state railroad commissions, directing the stoppage of through interstate trains, have frequently, within late years, been before this court. The last case is that of Mississippi Railroad Commission v. Illinois Central Railroad Company, 203...

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