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UNITED STATES v. CHICAGO, ETC., R. CO.

No. 10.

282 U.S. 311 (1931)

UNITED STATES ET AL. v. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, ST. PAUL AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Reargued November 25, 1930.

Decided January 5, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant to the Attorney General O'Brian, with whom Attorney General Mitchell, Messrs. Claude R. Branch and Charles H. Weston, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, and Daniel W. Knowlton, Chief Counsel Interstate Commerce Commission, were on the brief, for the United States et al.

Mr. John W. Davis, with whom Messrs. H.H. Field, O.W. Dynes, Robert T. Swaine, and Frederick H. Wood were on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1925 the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, a Wisconsin corporation, became insolvent and passed into the hands of receivers appointed by the federal district court for the northern district of Illinois and subsequently by other federal district courts. Thereupon, and pending a decree of foreclosure of outstanding...

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