State ex rel. Great Northern Railway Co. v. Railroad Commission

Citations

• 47 Wash. 627
• 92 P. 457
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 824

Syllabus

<p>Carriers—Regulation op Rates—Railroad Commission—Pleading and Issues. Under Laws 1905, p. 145, § 3, authorizing the railroad commission to determine the reasonableness of rates, “Upon complaint made,” and after a full hearing, the commission cannot, upon a complaint as to certain distance tariffs, make an order that certain other commodity rates shall not be increased, where the complaint alleged the latter to be fair and reasonable; since no issue was presented thereon and no order could be made relating thereto without notice and hearing; the remedy for an increase of such rates being by another complaint.</p>