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1 Decisions of Supreme Court of United States in Matter of Edward T. Young, Petitioner, and in Case of Thomas F. Hunter v. James H. Wood 1908

handle is hein.trials/dsuprdyo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 60TH CONGRESS, SENATE. DOCUMENT 1st Sssio. -No. 410. DECISIONS 01' SUIPREME COVRT OF UNITED STATES IN MATTER OF EI)VARD T. YQ)U'N(, PETITIONER. AND IN (ASE OF THOMAS F. HUNTER v. JAME.S II. WOOD. Mr. LoNG presented the following DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE MATTER OF EDWARD T. YOUNG, PETITIONER, ON PETITION FOR WRITS OF HABEAS CORPUS AND CERTIORARI, WITH THE DISSENTING OPINION BY JUDGE HARLAN, AND THE DECISION IN THE CASE OF THOMAS F. HUNTER, SHERIFF OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, APPELLANT, AGAINST JAMES H. WOOD. MIARCH 27, 1908.-Ordered to be printed. Supreme Court of the United States. No. 10, original.--()tober term, 1907. Ex parte: In the matter of Edward T. Young. petitioner. On petition for writs of habeas corpus and certiorari. March 23, 1908. An original application was made to this court for leave to file a petition for writs of habeas corpus and certiorari in behalf of Edward T. Young, petitioner, as attorney-general of the State of Minnesota. Leave was granted and a rule enter'ed directing the United States marshal for the district of Minnesota. third division, who held the petitioner in his c((itodv, to show catise why such petition should not )e -ranted. The marshal, upon the return of the order to show cause, justified his detention of the petitioner by virtue of an order of the circuit court of the United States for tfhe district of Minnesota, which ad- jidlred the petitioner guilty of contempt of that court and directed that h e be fined the sum of . 100. and that he should dismiss the man- damus procee(lings brought by him in the name and in behalf of the State in the circuit court of the State. and that he should stand com- mitted to the custody of the marshal until that order was obeyed. The ,ase involve' the validity of the order of the circuit court committing him for contempt. The facts are these: The legislature of the State of Minnesota duly created a railroad and warehouse commission, and that commission on the 6th of September, 1906, made an order fixing the rates for the various railroad companies for the carriage of merchandise between stations in that 'tate of the kind and classes specified in what i. known as the Western Classification. These rates materially re-

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