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BALT. & OHIO R.R. v. U.S. EX REL. PITCAIRN COAL CO.

No. 289.

215 U.S. 481 (1910)

BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES EX REL. PITCAIRN COAL COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 10, 1910.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hugh L. Bond, with whom Mr. W. Ainsworth Parker was on the brief, for Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, plaintiff in error.

Mr. Edgar H. Gans, with whom Mr. Charles H. Markell was on the brief for Fairmont Coal Company et al., plaintiffs in error.

Mr. William A. Glasgow, Jr., with whom Mr. Frederick Dallam was on the brief, for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

To decide the merits of this cause will require us to determine the legality of the regulations of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, by which that company distributed cars to coal mines along the line of its road in case of car shortage. As an incident to this general question we would further be required to consider the relations, irrespective of its mere attributes and duties as a common carrier, of the...

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