LOUISVILLE & NASH. R.R. v. UNITED STATES

No. 290.

242 U.S. 60 (1916)

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

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 4, 1916.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward S. Jouett, with whom Mr. Henry L. Stone, Mr. W.A. Colston and Mr. Jno. B. Keeble were on the briefs, for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company.

Mr. Claude Waller, Mr. R. Walton Moore and Mr. Frank W. Gwathmey filed a brief for Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Underwood for the United States.

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


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a decree, made by three judges sitting in the District Court, which denied a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission and dismissed the appellants' petition. 227 Fed. Rep. 258, id. 273. See 33 I.C.C. 76, for the report of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The order complained of required...

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