209 U.S. ?tatemen? �/ ;he Ca?. in any counl;y into waieh its railroad extends, and ?n winch it has a station, and upon a conviction t, nereo? be punished by imprisonment in she county jail for a period not exceeding ninety days." The ac;, was to take effec; 5une 1, 1907. The railroad comparaes did not, obey the provisions of this act so far as concerned the adoption ana pubhcation of rates as specified therein. On the thirty-first of May, 1907, the day before the act was to take effect, nine suits in equity were commenced in the (?r- cuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota, Third Division, each suit being brought by stockholders of the particular railroad mentioned in the bill, and in each case the defendants named were the railroad company of which the complainants were, respectively, stockholders, and the mere- bens of the Railread and Warehouse Commission, and the Attor- ney General of the State, Edward T. Young, and individual de- fendants representing the shippers of freigh? upon the railroad. The order puniRhing Mr. Young for contempt was made in the suit in which Charles E. Perkins, a citizen of ?he Stats of Iowa, and David C. Shepard, a citizen of the State of Minnesota, were complainants, and the Northern Pacific Railway Com- pany, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of W'mco?lsin, Edward T. Young, petitioner herein, and others, were parties. defendant. All of the defendants, except the railway company, are citizens and residents of the State of Minnesota. It was averted in the bill that the suit was not a collusive one to confer on the court jurisdiction of a c?e of which it could not otherwise have cognizance, but that the objects and purposes of the s?it were to enjoin the railway company from publishing or adopting (or continuing to observe, if already adopted) the rates and tariffs prescribed and set forth in the two acts of the legislature above mentioned and jn the order? of the Railroad and Warehouse CoremJaSon, and also to enjoin the other defendants from attempting to enforce such pro- visions, or from instituting any action or proceeding against
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