Source: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/222/424/
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 02:26:13+00:00

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Although where Congress and the state have concurrent powers, that of the state is superseded when the power of Congress is exercised, the action of Congress must be specific in order to be paramount. Missouri Pacific Ry. Co. v. Larabee Mills, 211 U. S. 612.
the power of the state over the general subject of commerce has been divided into three classes: first, those in which the power of the state is exclusive; second, those in which the states may act in the absence of legislation by Congress; third, those in which the action of Congress is exclusive and the state cannot act at all. Covington &c. Bridge Co. v. Kentucky, 154 U. S. 209; Western Union Telegraph Co. v. James, 162 U. S. 650, 162 U. S. 655.
of the state's power, citing Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Mazursky, 216 U. S. 122; Western Union Tel. Co. v. James, 162 U. S. 650.
received by shippers is given through the Interstate Commerce Commission. See Robinson v. Baltimore & O. R. Co., post, p. 222 U. S. 506. By these provisions, Congress has taken possession of the field of regulation with the purpose, which we have already pointed out, to keep under the eye and control of the Commission the rates charged and the action of the railroad in regard to them, to secure their reasonableness, and to secure their impartial application. The statute of North Carolina conflicts with these requirements. What they forbid the carrier to do the statute requires him to do, and punishes disobedience by successive daily penalties.

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