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A statute of a state, providing that no contract shall exempt any railroad corporation from the liability of a common carrier or carrier of passengers which would have existed if no contract had been made does not, as applied to a claim for an injury happening within the state under a contract for interstate transportation, contravene the provision of the Constitution of the United States empowering Congress to regulate interstate commerce.

The case is stated in the opinion.