TEXAS & P. RY. CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 186, 187.

42 F.2d 281 (1930)

TEXAS & P. RY. CO. v. UNITED STATES. LOUISIANA & A. R. CO. et al. v. SAME.

District Court, S. D. Texas, at Galveston.

June 16, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. J. Freeman, of New Orleans, La., T. D. Gresham, of Dallas, Tex., Esmond Phelps, of New Orleans, La., and Robert L. W. Thompson, of Dallas, Tex., for petitioners Texas & P. Ry. Co.

A. L. Burford, of Shreveport, La., and R. E. Milling, Jr., of New Orleans, La., for petitioners Louisiana & A. R. Co.

Elmer B. Collins, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., John Lord O'Brian, Asst. to Atty. Gen., and Henry M. Holden, U. S. Atty., of Houston, Tex., for the United States.

John St. Paul, Jr., of New Orleans, La., for intervener Board of Commissioners Port of New Orleans.

R. L. Bobbitt, Atty. Gen., Jack Blalock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Mart Royston, of Galveston, Tex., R. C. Fulbright, James J. Shaw, and Ball & Simmons, all of Houston, Tex., for interveners Galveston Chamber of Commerce and others.

Daniel W. Knowlton, of Washington, D. C., C. S. Burg, of St. Louis, Mo., Fred L. Wallace, of Fort Worth, Tex., G. B. Ross, of Galveston, Tex., and R. S. Outlaw, of Chicago, Ill., for interveners Interstate Commerce Commission and others.

Percy Saint, Atty. Gen., for the State of Louisiana.

Luther M. Walter, John S. Burchmore, and Nuel D. Belnap, all of Chicago, Ill., for interveners New Orleans Joint Traffic Bureau and others.

Before FOSTER, Circuit Judge, and GRUBB and HUTCHESON, District Judges.


HUTCHESON, District Judge.

These are injunction suits in which this court, convened under the applicable statute, is asked to set aside and enjoin the orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission, entered on June 24, 1925, June 29, 1927, and December 23, 1929, in docket No. 12798 and of December 23, 1929, in docket No. 20685.

These suits, brought by separate petitioners, involve substantially the same issues, and, upon order, they have been consolidated.<...

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