INTERSTATE COMM. COMM. v. NOR. PAC. RY.

No. 570.

216 U.S. 538 (1910)

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 7, 1910.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Wade H. Ellis, Assistant to the Attorney General, and Mr. P.J. Farrell, with whom Mr. Edwin P. Grosvenor was on the brief, for the appellant.

Mr. Charles W. Bunn for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill to restrain the enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 16 I.C.C. Rep. 300. A preliminary injunction was granted by four circuit judges, on the ground that the Commission had exceeded its powers, and the case was brought here by appeal. The order was made in a proceeding instituted by the Commission upon its own motion, and required...

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