TAP LINE CASES

Nos. 829, 830, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835, 836.

234 U.S. 1 (1914)

THE TAP LINE CASES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 25, 1914.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Blackburn Esterline, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom The Solicitor General and Mr. Karl W. Kirchwey, Attorney, were on the brief, for the United States:

Mr. Charles W. Needham, with whom Mr. Joseph W. Folk was on the brief, for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Mr. Robert Dunlap and Mr. James L. Coleman, with whom Mr. T.J. Norton and Mr. Gardiner Lathrop were on the brief, for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, and other trunk line railway companies, appellants in Nos. 830, 832, 834 and 836.

Mr. Luther M. Walter and Mr. H.M. Garwood, with whom Mr. W.R. Thurmond was on the brief, for appellees.

Mr. Wylie M. Barrow, with whom Mr. Ruffin G. Pleasant, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, was on the brief, for the Railroad Commission of Louisiana, intervenor and appellee.


MR. JUSTICE DAY, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

A preliminary objection is made to the jurisdiction of the Commerce Court in that the order of the Commission is not reviewable because merely of a negative character. The Commerce Court examined this question and in view of the amended order of October 30, 1912, reached the conclusion that the order was affirmative in its nature and...

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