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A Dictionary of American History
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Wabash, St Louis and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois
Wabash, St Louis and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois In 1886 the Supreme Court invalidated an Ill. law forbidding higher rates for railroad freight hauled for short distances than for long trips; it held (6–3) that Ill. had infringed Congress’s exclusive power to regulate rates charged in interstate commerce. The decision reversed the Court’s interpretation in the Granger cases; in combination with Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad Company v. Minnesota and Reagan v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, it enabled railroad and warehouse corporations to challenge unfavorable decisions by state regulatory commissions in federal courts, which often ruled that state regulation violated their property rights.
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Chicago: Thomas L. Purvis, "Wabash, St Louis and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed December 4, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=AXEFFP36UE9KNFQ.
MLA: Purvis, Thomas L. "Wabash, St Louis and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 4 Dec. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=AXEFFP36UE9KNFQ.
Harvard: Purvis, TL, 'Wabash, St Louis and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 4 December 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=AXEFFP36UE9KNFQ.
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