ALEXANDER SPRUNT & SON, Inc., et al.
v.
UNITED STATES et al.
TEXAS & N. O. R. CO. et al.
v.
SAME.
District Court, S. D. Texas.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
December 5, 1927.
December 5, 1927.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Fulbright, Crooker & Freeman, of Houston, Tex., R. L. Batts, of Austin, Tex., and C. K. Bullard, of Dallas, Tex. (R. C. Fulbright, of Houston, Tex., of counsel), for plaintiff Alexander Sprunt & Son, Inc.
A. L. Reed, of Dallas, Tex., for interveners.
M. H. Royston, of Galveston, Tex., and Baker, Botts, Parker & Garwood, of Houston, Tex., for plaintiff Texas & N. O. R. Co.
Terry, Cavin & Mills, of Galveston, Tex., for plaintiff Sante Fé Ry.
C. C. Huff, of Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff Missouri, K. & T. R. Co.
T. D. Gresham, of Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff Texas & P. R. Co.
Frank H. Moore, of Kansas City, Mo., for plaintiff Kansas City Ry. Co.
Andrews, Streetman, Logue & Mobley, of Houston, Tex., Thompson & Barwise, of Fort Worth, Tex., and Ames, Lowe & Cochran, of Oklahoma City, Okl., for other plaintiffs.
P. J. Farrell and J. Stanley Payne, both of Washington, D. C., for defendant Interstate Commerce Commission.
Blackburn Esterline, of Washington, D. C., and Wayne G. Borah and T. M. L. Bruns, U. S. Attys., both of New Orleans, La.
Before FOSTER, Circuit Judge, and BURNS and HUTCHESON, District Judges.
District Court, S. D. Texas.
HUTCHESON, District Judge.
These two suits involve the same questions, and were tried together. They are brought to enjoin the enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission requiring the carriers to equalize export and domestic rates on cotton at Gulf ports.
In suit No. 310, the plaintiffs are owners of water front cotton compresses and warehouses at Houston, Tex., and others having similar interests. In suit to No. 311 the plaintiffs are railroads...
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