Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“ Most of the assignments of error concern questions of local law with which we cannot deal. Such are whether the order of the Commission were in force pending an injunction and before the defendant railroad had fixed rates in pursuance of a mandate of the State Court; whether the State laws permit an action to be maintained without an order of reparation by the Commission; and whether the statutes purport to make the order fixing the rates conclusive in the present suits. ”

“ It is said that this would be contrary to the interstate commerce act if these cases involved interstate commerce, which they do not. We see no question concerning it that requires to be dealt with here. ”