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WICHITA R.R. & LIGHT CO. v. PUB. UTIL. COMM.

No. 27.

260 U.S. 48 (1922)

43 S.Ct. 51

67 L.Ed. 124

WICHITA RAILROAD & LIGHT COMPANY v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF KANSAS ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 13, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry I. Green, with whom Mr. Thomas F. Doran was on the briefs, for appellant.

Mr. H.L. McCune, with whom Mr. A.E. Helm was on the briefs, for appellees.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellees urge that the concession of the appellant that contracts in respect to the rates to be charged by a public utility are subject to suspension or abrogation by the police power of the State validly exercised through an administrative agency takes out of this case any federal question, because the issue then is only a state question, to wit, whether, under the state...

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