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- Title: Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Company v. Wellman.
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 29, 1892
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
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The single question presented on the record is, whether the trial court, on the facts presented, erred in refusing to instruct, as a matter of law, that the act of 1889 was unconstitutional. It will be noticed that that act does not interfere with the rates of freight; it simply regulates passenger fares; also, that there was no agreement that the freight rates could not be so changed as to increase the revenues therefrom. There was in evidence the opinion of two gentlemen, doubtless well informed and worthy of credit, that an increase of freight rates was inexpedient and futile, and would tend to diminish rather than increase the income from freight. But the question was not submitted to the jury as to whether they believed that an increase of freight rates would work a reduction of the income from freight, nor even whether they believed that a reduction of the passenger tariff between Battle Creek and Port Huron would not so increase the travel as to increase the earnings therefrom; but the court was asked
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