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Show EQUITY OF LOCAL RATES. Supreme Court Decides Case Involving Involv-ing Powers of Railroad Commission. Com-mission. Washington. lu tho enso of the Alabama & Mlcslsslppl Itallroud company com-pany vs. tho Mississippi railroad commission, com-mission, thu supremo court entered n decision Monday lu support of the contentious con-tentious of tho state. The case Involved thu rlRht of tho commission to fix n Hat rate of 3Vi cents per mile per hundred pounds on carload lots of grain from Vlcksburg to Morldlnn, both In Mississippi. Tho action of thu commission In mnklng. the rato was based uon tho nlleglf-tlon nlleglf-tlon that tho Vlckshurg road was In tho habit of giving that llguro to patrons pat-rons who also gave their business to tho Shrovepnrt & I'ncllla rnnd, nn allied al-lied concern, while tho rate, to thu other patrons wns 10 rents per hundred, hun-dred, Tho Mississippi supremo court sustnlned the action of tho commissioners commis-sioners nud that llndlng Is upheld. |