UNITED STATES v. ALASKA S.S. CO.

No. 541.

253 U.S. 113 (1920)

UNITED STATES AND INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION v. ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 17, 1920.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General and Mr. Charles W. Needham, with whom Mr. P.J. Farrell was on the briefs, for appellants.

Mr. Roscoe H. Hupper and Mr. Theodore W. Reath, with whom Mr. Edgar H. Boles, Mr. George F. Brownell, Mr. Blewett Lee, Mr. Thaddeus H. Swank and Mr. F.H. Wood were on the briefs, for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

A petition was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by numerous interstate carriers and carriers by water against the United States and the Interstate Commerce Commission to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission dated March 14, 1919, requiring the carriers to use two certain modified bills of lading, one pertaining to domestic and the other to export transportation...

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