UNITED STATES v. B. & O. SOUTHWESTERN RY.

No. 648.

226 U.S. 14 (1912)

UNITED STATES, CINCINNATI AND COLUMBUS TRACTION COMPANY, AND INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION v. BALTIMORE AND OHIO SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY AND THE NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 11, 1912.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Denison, with whom Mr. Thurlow M. Gordon, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States and Mr. Charles W. Needham for Interstate Commerce Commission, appellants.

Mr. R. Walton Moore, Mr. Edward Barton and Mr. Theodore W. Reath, with whom Mr. Joseph I. Doran and Mr. F. Markoe Rivinus were on the brief, for appellees.

Mr. C.B. Matthews filed a brief for the appellant, Cincinnati & Columbus Traction Company.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission directing the appellees to establish switch connections with the road of the appellant and also through routes to and from points on that road. 20 I.C.C. Rep. 486. The Commerce Court made a decree as prayed, 195 Fed. Rep. 962, and an appeal was taken to...

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