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- Title: Southern Pacific Co. V. Railroad Commission Of
- Author : Supreme Court Of California In Bank
- Release Date : January 03, 1939
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 87 KB
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HOUSER, J. Pursuant to the provisions contained in Statutes 1935, page 878, as amended, in a proceeding which wheretofore had been initiated by the respondent commission, an order was made by it by which minimum rates or charges for the transportation of various commodities by different types of highway common carriers, respectively, were fixed and determined. Thereafter, Southern Pacific Company, which was and is a common carrier by rail, that was relatively affected by such order, together with several other like carriers, filed with the respondent commission certain schedules or rates wherein and whereby it was proposed that on a specified date the freight rates for the transportation of beverages (particularly beer) from San Francisco, and the adjacent area, to the city of Los Angeles and its immediate vicinity, be reduced from the flat rate of 25 cents per 100 pounds, in lots ranging from a minimum of 18,000 pounds to a maximum of 30,000 pounds (as theretofore had been established by the said order of the respondent commission for highway carriers), to a rate of 20 cents per 100 pounds in minimum lots of 50,000 pounds; furthermore, that on shipments of such beverages from San Francisco to the city of San Diego, the then-existing rate be reduced from 30 cents per 100 pounds to 25 cents per 100 pounds. Thereupon, in response to protests that had been filed with the respondent commission by various highway and water carriers, respectively, against the adoption of such proposed rates, an order was issued by the respondent commission by the terms of which in effect, the putting in operation of such rates was suspended until further order might be made with respect thereto. With such objective in view, a reconsideration of that part of its former order, by which freight rates for highway common carriers had been established with reference to such beverages, was directed to be had at the same
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