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Show SUGAR CASE DISMISSED. Finding That Rate Was Not Unreasonable Unrea-sonable in and Of Itself. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 2S. The famous fa-mous sugar rate case, which had been pending for several years, was dismissed today by United States Circuit Judge Morrow. In his opinion Judgo Morrow exhaustively exhaus-tively discusses the case and decides that the Interstate Commerce Commission s not vested with legislative powers to establish es-tablish rates and that It had not been ohown that the rate complained of on sugur from San Francisco to Kearney, Neb., was unreasonable per se. The suit was entitled the Interstate Commerce Commission vs. tho Southern Pacific company, the Union Pacific Railway Rail-way company, nnd S. II. Clark. Oliver W. Mink. E. Ellery Anderson. John W. Doane and Frederick R. Coudert, as re-. culver of tho Union Pacific Railway company; com-pany; and the Union Pacific Railroad company, as successor of the Union Pacific Paci-fic Railway company. This was a suit In equity to restrain tho defendants from collecting certain freight charges on sugar In violation of the order of tho Interstate Commerce Commission. |