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Show IMPORTANT DECISION IN PIPE LINE CASES Injunction Issued Against the Enforcement Enforce-ment of Punitive Provisions of California Law. SAX FRAXCISCO. Sept. 14. On tlie sround that a fine of S1J.0O0 a day is an excessive and ruinous penalty. Judge Maurice T. Dooling of the United States listrict court issued a permanent injunction in-junction today, resu-aininK A'.'ornev General Gen-eral ('. S. Webb and the state railroad cinmission from enforcing tlie punitive provisions of tlie pipe line act. passed "V the last legislature, asainsc the As--ociated Pipe Line company, a subsidiary subsid-iary of the Southern Pacific coinpanv. Tne pipe line act. which became" effective ef-fective August 10. ir.13, declared all pipe lines common carriers and ordered a'l pipe hue companies to file their rites vuh tlie commission or stand liable to a fine of r-0 cents a barrel a dav s ilie Associated Pipe line has a caiwitv .A'jO'i barrels a day this would amount m their case to a penaltv of $l.v00 daily Standard Oil companv complied with t.ie act and filed its rates but tic Associated and six other prln'cioal oil line? did not. The effect of the decision icndcrcd today is to remove from tiieir 'iitiire what the court called tiie 'dread ' excessive and u nreasona "le penalties" cir.il the slate courts, or, if need bp tiie . tilted States supreme court. c(,n Vl-vS ui ti:c Ojiistitulionalitv of the act |