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ADAMS v. MELLON

No. 37517.

39 F.2d 80 (1930)

ADAMS et al. v. MELLON, Director General of Railroads, et al.

District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

January 27, 1930.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sims, Godman & Stransky, of New York City, and C. R. Hillyer, of Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

A. A. McLaughlin, of Des Moines, Iowa, Sidney F. Andrews, of Washington, D. C., and Edgar R. Hart, of Chicago, Ill., for Director General.

Winston, Strawn & Shaw, of Chicago, Ill. (Frank H. Towner, of Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for Union Stock Yard & Transit Co.

WOODWARD, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, 103 in number, members of the Chicago Live Stock Exchange, bring this suit against Andrew Mellon, Director General of Railroads, and Union Stock Yard & Transit Company, under section 16 of the Act to Regulate Commerce (49 USCA § 16) to recover from the defendants jointly $140,001.25, with interest, awarded to plaintiffs in a reparations order entered by the Interstate Commerce Commission on December 12, 1927, which sum...

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