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PRENTIS ET AL. v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE

Nos. 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275.

211 U.S. 210 (1908)

29 S.Ct. 67

53 L.Ed. 150

PRENTIS et al., CONSTITUTING THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF VIRGINIA, v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE COMPANY. SAME v. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY. SAME v. CHESAPEAKE WESTERN RAILWAY. SAME v. LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY. SAME v. NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. SAME v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 30, 1908.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William A. Anderson, Attorney General of the State of Virginia, Mr. John W. Daniel and Mr. A. Caperton Braxton, for appellants.

Mr. Alfred P. Thom, for appellees, with whom Messrs. Alexander Hamilton, William B. McIlwaine, Henry T. Wickham, Henry Taylor, Jr., S.S.P. Patteson, Geo. H. Taylor, H.L. Stone, Jos. I. Doran, Lucian H. Cocke and John K. Graves were on the briefs. Mr. Henry L. Stone filed a separate brief for Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company on the arbitrary classification by the State Corporation Commission of Virginia in fixing the rates complained of.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

These are bills in equity brought in the Circuit Court to enjoin the members and clerk of the Virginia State Corporation Commission from publishing or taking any other steps to enforce a certain order fixing passenger rates. The bills allege, with some elaboration of the facts, that the rates in question are confiscatory, and other matters not necessary to mention, and...

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