MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.
We here are concerned with a statute of California and an order made thereunder by the state railroad commission, both of which are said to be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States, and therefore invalid.
The statute declares that every private corporation or individual operating "any pipe line or any part of any pipe line. . . for the transportation of crude oil . . ., directly or indirectly...
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