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UNITED STATES v. LOUIS. & NASH. R.R.

No. 39.

235 U.S. 314 (1914)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 7, 1914.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Solicitor General Bullitt for the United States.

Mr. Charles W. Needham for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Mr. William A. Wimbish for Duncan & Co., et al.

Mr. Albert S. Brandeis, with whom Mr. Henry L. Stone was on the brief, for Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co..

Mr. K.T. McConnico, with whom Mr. John A. Pitts and Mr. Lee Douglas were on the brief, for the Nashville Grain Exchange and the Nashville Board of Trade.

Mr. Merrel P. Callaway and Mr. R. Walton Moore filed a brief for the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway.

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

This case involves a controversy as to the legality of a reshipping privilege permitted at Nashville by the carriers who are parties to the record, described by the court below as follows:

"On grain, grain products, and hay shipped to Nashville by rail from or through Ohio or Mississippi River crossing points such as Louisville, Evansville, Hickman, Paducah...

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