St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Arkansas

Citations

• 240 U.S. 518
• 36 S. Ct. 443
• 60 L. Ed. 776
• 1916 U.S. LEXIS 1478

Syllabus

<p>Legislation cannot be-all-comprehensive, and police statutes otherwise valid may, without being unconstitutional as denying equal protection of the law, contain practical groupings of objects which fairly well present a class, although there may be exceptions in which the evil aimed at is deemed by the legislature to be not so flagrant.-</p> <p>The statute of Arkansas, requiring full switching crews on railroads exceeding one hundred miles in length, is not unconstitutional as depriving a railroad company over one hundred miles in length, of its property without due process of law, or as denying it equal protection of the law, or as an interference'with, or burden upon, interstate commerce. Chicago & Rock Island Ry. v. Arkansas, 219 U. S. 453.</p> <p>114 Arkansas, 486, affirmed.</p>