Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : May-28-1894
..... in the decree, attempt to enact a law upon the same subject which shall be obnoxious to no legal objections. it stops with simply passing its judgment on the validity of the act before it. the same rule obtains in a case like this. we pass then to the remaining question, were the rates, as prescribed by the commission, unjust and ..... individual. a tax law, as it leaves the legislative hands, may not be obnoxious to any challenge and yet the officers charged with the administration of that valid tax law may so act under it, in the matter of assessment or page 154 u. s. 391 collection, as to work an illegal trespass upon the property rights of the individual ..... commission and empowers it to make reasonable rates and regulations for the control of railroads. it is familiar law that one section or part of an act may be invalid without affecting the validity of the remaining portion of the statute. any independent provision may be thus dropped out if that which is left is fully operative as a law, .....
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