State ex rel. Great Northern Railway v. Railroad Commission

Citations

• 52 Wash. 33
• 100 P. 184
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 1069

Syllabus

<p>Carriers— Regulation — Freight Rates —Power of Railroad Commission- — -Maximum Rates — -Effect—Statutes — Repeal — Construction. The constitutional provision requiring the legislature to establish reasonable maximum transportation rates, does not prevent the delegation of such power to a railroad commission, since it further provides that the legislature may establish a railroad and transportation commission and define its powers; hence it does not prevent the establishment of a regulative commission with power to fix maximum rates in conflict with the maximum rate laws, and Laws 1907, providing such a commission, impliedly repeals former maximum rate laws of the state, upon the taking effect of conflicting rates established by the commission.</p>