State ex rel. Railroad Commissioners v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

Citations

• 81 Fla. 168

Syllabus

<p>1. Entire and exclusive jurisdiction over the matter of requiring physical connection between rail and water carriers has been given by Congress to the Interstate Commerce Commission, and there is no field for the operation of State laws, or control by the State Railroad Commission, over the same subject matter.</p> <p>2. Until Congress gave to the Interstate Commerce Commission entire and exclusive jurisdiction over the matter of physical connection between rail and water carriers, the State had full power and jurisdiction over the subject, but when Congress exercised the power, and lodged the entire and exclusive jurisdiction over it in the Interstate Commerce Commission, the right of the State over the same subject matter was extinguished.</p> <p>3. A concurrent power of the Federal and State governments may be exercised by the States until the same field is covered by Congress, and when that is done, State legislation on the subject becomes inoperative and ineffective.</p> <p>4. The test is not whether the State legislation is in conflict with the details of the Federal law or supplements it, but whether the State has any jurisdiction of a subject over which Congress has exerted its exclusive control.</p>