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A., T. & S.F. RY. v. UNITED STATES

No. 466.

279 U.S. 768 (1929)

ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 3, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. R.S. Outlaw, with whom Messrs. A.B. Enoch, H.H. Larimore, E.E. McInnis, M.L. Bell, W.F. Dickinson, and E.J. White were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Daniel W. Knowlton, with whom Attorney General Mitchell and Mr. Elmer B. Collins, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for appellees United States and Interstate Commerce Commission.

Mr. Frank H. Towner, with whom Messrs. Silas H. Strawn, Frank H. Moore, and Wm. E. Davis were on the brief, for appellees Kansas City Southern Railway Company et al.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought in the federal court for northern Illinois, under the Urgent Deficiencies Act of October 22, 1913, c. 32, 38 Stat. 208, 220, to enjoin and annul an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission entered July 6, 1927. That order directed the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and two other railroads to cancel proposed tariffs increasing the respective grain rates from numerous country points in...

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