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ROWLAND v. ST. LOUIS & S.F.R.R. CO.

No. 252.

244 U.S. 106 (1917)

37 S.Ct. 577

61 L.Ed. 1022

ROWLAND ET AL., RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, v. BOYLE, ADMINISTRATOR OF BOYLE, AND THE ST. LOUIS & SAN FRANCISCO RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 21, 1917.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph M. Hill and Mr. S.P. Freeling for appellants.

Mr. S.T. Bledsoe and Mr. John M. Moore, with whom Mr. W.F. Evans was on the briefs, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill in equity originally brought by Wilbur Boyle as a stockholder in the Railroad Company, now one of the appellees, to prevent it from paying, and the Railroad Commission of Arkansas from enforcing, freight rates established by the latter, and a two-cent passenger rate fixed by a statute of 1907, on the ground that both were confiscatory. A temporary injunction was issued, freight rates were adopted...

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