UNITED STATES v. ERIE R.R. CO.

Nos. 537, 538, 539.

220 U.S. 275 (1911)

UNITED STATES v. ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY. SAME v. CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY. SAME v. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 3, 1911.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Wade H. Ellis, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom The Attorney General and Mr. Edwin P. Grosvenor, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. John G. Johnson for appellees. Mr. Adelbert Moot and Mr. Geo. F. Brownell submitted a separate brief for the appellee in No. 537.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

These three cases were embraced in the commodities cases previously before this court, and, like the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Case, No. 536, ante, p. 257, they are but sequels of the controversy pointed out in the opinion in that case as having been formerly passed upon in the opinion reported in Sand Filtration Corporation v.

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