Show STATES CM NOT FIK THE RATES highest court aff dec s ons of lower courts in cases from north carolina and minnesota washington in refusing to grant to attorney general young of minne eota a writ of habeas corpus beleas ing him from the penalty imposed by the united states district court for tle tl e district court of minnesota on the charge t ol 01 court in instituting a proceeding in a state acci rt for enforcement of the railroad rat law afat the federal court had prohibited such a course and in at firming the of adge ard of the united states court tor the western district of north car olina discharging from imprisonment james H wood a ticket agent of the southern railway of asheville after te had been sentenced by the ashe ille police court to serve a term on the rock pile on the charge of collect ing for a ticket on that road a greater price than was permitted by the state railroad law the supreme court of the united states has added another to the series of decisions which have rendered notable the present term ol 01 that court in both cases the right of the states to fix rates for railroad transports tran tion was the issue and both involved conflicts between the federal and ane state courts the decision in each case was opposed both to the state ond to their courts |