Show HIGHTS OF RAILROAD NEED NOT BUILD SWITCHES TO GRAIN ELEVATORS ELEVA TOnS UNLESS THEY SO 80 to exact penalty for car shortage illegal while hotel and other drummer drummers cannot operate on train trains without permission washington E m p h a s I 1 z lag ing the rights of railroads rall roada the eupheme court of the united states on monday declared unconstitutional the law of ne no braska requiring railroads to build switches to alt all grain elevators along their tracks upon request and called a halt on the attempt of the state of ark arkansas a to penalize an inderst interstate a to railroad for failure to supply cars enough to accommodate interstate traffic la in announcing the opinion la in the nebraska Neb taska caad justice holmes assert ed that although the state possessed eed certain police por borers ers and railroads must fulfill the purposes aea for their charters were granted yet I 1 r rail a 11 roads like other owners of 0 property bare bave rights protected by the consal aution 11 ia in the written opinion the rights the railroads were phrased somewhat differently from what they were la in the oral explanation of the court among other decisions the court upheld the act of A kangal prohibiting drumming up business by and hotel keeper keep ri on trains an odd thing about the claing waa was announcement as to the decision of the court of an opinion written by the late jus tico tics brewer the question as to whether the penalty for violation of at the twenty eight hour law for shipment of live block stock ahall shall bo be assessed on the separate shipment as urged by the me government or on the as a unit as contended for by the baltimore ohio southwestern railroad la Is to be considered again by the supreme court |