Wood v. Vandalia Railroad

Citations

• 231 U.S. 1
• 34 S. Ct. 7
• 58 L. Ed. 97
• 1913 U.S. LEXIS 2636

Syllabus

<p>An order of a state railroad commission prescribing maximum freight rates on specified intrastate traffic will not be declared unconstitutional as confiscatory and depriving a railroad company of its property without due process of law where there is no proof of the value of the company’s property within the State or of its receipts from its entire intrastate traffic, or of the value of that portion of the property affected by the order.</p> <p>It does not necessarily follow from the mere fact that the total operating expenses of a railroad or of a division thereof bear a given relation to the entire receipts of that road or' division, that the same ratio of expenses to receipts are maintained in regard to each particular class of traffic, and this court will not declare an order of a state railroad commission unconstitutional as confiscatory without proof as to the actual facts in regard to the particular rates complained of.</p>