MANUFACTURERS RY. CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 24, 25.

246 U.S. 457 (1918)

MANUFACTURERS RAILWAY COMPANY AND ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES AND INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. MANUFACTURERS RAILWAY COMPANY AND ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASSOCIATION ET AL. v. UNITED STATES AND INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 15, 1918.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Sidney F. Andrews and Mr. Daniel N. Kirby, with whom Mr. Charles Nagel was on the briefs, for appellants.

Mr. D. Upthegrove, Mr. A.L. Burford and Mr. Edward A. Haid filed a brief for St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. in No. 24.

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 PITNEY, having made the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

It will be convenient to dispose first of No. 25.

The scope of the order of July 10, 1914, under I.C.C. Docket No. 3151, is simple and limited; the grounds of attack upon it are many and diverse, and based rather upon what it does not, than upon what it does, require to be done. As is pointed out in the prefatory statement...

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