Show EQUITY OF LOCAL RATES supreme court dec des case involve ing powers of railroad corn miss ons washington in the case of the alabama mississippi railroad corn pany ag the mississippi railroad corn mission the supreme court entered a decision monday in support of the con tensions tent ions of the state the case involved the right of the commission to fix a flat rate of 3 cents per mile per hundred pounds on carload lots of grain from vicksburg to meridian both in mississippi the action of the commission in making the rate was based upon the allega alon that the vicksburg road was ir the habit of ahing that figure to pat rons who also gave their business to the shreveport pacific road an al lied conceio while the rate to the other patrons was 10 cents per hun dred the mississippi supreme burt sustained the action of the commis bitners and that finding is upheld |