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LEHIGH VALLEY R.R. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 733.

243 U.S. 412 (1917)

LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 26, 1917.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Richard W. Barrett, with whom Mr. John G. Johnson and Mr. Edgar H. Boles were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Blackburn Esterline, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom The Solicitor General was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Joseph W. Folk for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill to prevent the enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission. On December 2, 1913, the Commission issued a circular calling attention to the fact that the Act of August 24, 1912, c. 390, § 11, 37 Stat. 560, 566, known as the Panama Canal Act, prohibited, after July 1, 1914, any ownership by a railroad in any common carrier by water...

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