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MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. McGREW COAL COMPANY

No. 265.

256 U.S. 134 (1921)

41 S.Ct. 404

65 L.Ed. 864

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. McGREW COAL COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 11, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward J. White, with whom Mr. James F. Green and Mr. Harvey C. Clark were on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Edwin A. Krauthoff, with whom Mr. Z. Lewis Dalby, Mr. William S. McClintock and Mr. Arthur L. Quant were on the brief, for defendant in error.

Memorandum opinion by direction of the court, by MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS.

In this action by a shipper brought under the long-and-short-haul statute of Missouri a judgment for the over-charges entered by the trial court was affirmed by the highest court of the State.

The case comes here on writ of error, the railroad contending that the statute as construed violates rights secured to it by the Federal Constitution. The...

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