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Show MISSOURI WINS THE RATE FIGHT High Court Sustains Two-Cent Passenger and Maximum Freight Laws. Kansas City, Dec. 20. The state of .Missouri won a final victory In the two-cent railroad passenger and max Imum freight rate cases today whrn .fudge Smith Mcpherson of Red Oak. Ia.. following the mandate ot ibe United Uni-ted States sunreme court, dismissed "without prejudice" the cases bled by thirteen railroads enjoining the state from enforcln? the rate laws The hiuher court sustained the validity or both laws and ordered the cases dismissed. dis-missed. Judge McPhersnn also refused to ro tain jurisdiction in the federal court, as asked by the roads. |