Show EQUITY OF LOCAL RATES Supreme Court Decides Case Involving Involv-ing Powers of Railroad Commissions Com-missions Washington tho case of tho Alabama Mississippi Railroad company com-pany vs tho Mississippi railroad commission com-mission tho supremo court entered a decision Monday In support of the contentions con-tentions of tho state f The case Involved the right of the commission to fix a fiat rate of 31 h cents per mile per hundred pounds on carload lots of grain from VIcksburg to Meridian both In Mississippi Tho action of the commission In making tho rate was based upon tho allegation allega-tion that the Vicksburg road was Ira tho habit of giving that figure to patrons pat-rons who also gavo their business to tho Shreveport Pacific road an allied al-lied concern while the rate to tho other patrons was 10 cents per hundred hun-dred Tho Mississippi supreme court sustained tho action of the commissioners commis-sioners and that finding is upheld |