Home > Great American Court Cases > Railroad Commission of Texas v. Pullman Company

Legal Citation: 312 U.S. 496 (1941)

Appellant
Railroad Commission of Texas, et al.

Appellee
Pullman Company, et al.

Appellant's Claim
That under Texas law it had authority to regulate Pullman sleepers, and that a federal district court erred in preventing enforcement of this regulation.

Chief Lawyers for Appellant
Cecil A. Morgan, Cecil C. Rotsch

Chief Lawyer for Appellee
Ireland Graves

Justices for the Court
Hugo Lafayette Black, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter (writing for the Court), Charles Evans Hughes, James Clark McReynolds, Frank Murphy, Stanley Forman Reed, Harlan Fiske Stone

Justices Dissenting
None (Owen Josephus Roberts did not participate)

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
3 March 1941

Decision
Reversed the lower court's order to...