Home > Great American Court Cases > Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company v. the State of Minnesota

Legal Citation: 134 U.S. 418 (1890)

Plaintiff
The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company

Defendant
State of Minnesota ex rel. the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Minnesota

Plaintiff's Claim
The state of Minnesota wrongly granted power to the Warehouse and Railroad Commission to limit charges on behalf of freight carriers in the state.

Chief Lawyers for Plaintiff
John W. Cary, W. C. Goudy, J. H. Howe, W. H. Norris

Chief Defense Lawyers
Moses E. Clapp, H. W. Childs

Justices for the Court
Samuel Blatchford (writing for the Court), David Josiah Brewer, Stephen Johnson Field, Melville Weston Fuller, John Marshall Harlan I, Samuel Freeman Miller

Justices Dissenting
Joseph P. Bradley, Horace Gray, Lucius Quintus C. Lamar

Place
Washington, D.C.

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