WAREHOUSE CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 635-643.

283 U.S. 501 (1931)

MERCHANTS WAREHOUSE CO. v. UNITED STATES ET AL. MERCHANTS WAREHOUSE CO. ET AL. v. SAME. UNITED STATES ET AL. v. MERCHANTS WAREHOUSE CO. ET AL. PENNSYLVANIA WAREHOUSING & SAFE DEPOSIT CO. v. UNITED STATES ET AL. PENNSYLVANIA WAREHOUSING & SAFE DEPOSIT CO. ET AL. v. SAME. UNITED STATES ET AL. v. PENNSYLVANIA WAREHOUSING & SAFE DEPOSIT CO. ET AL. PHILADELPHIA WAREHOUSING & COLD STORAGE CO. v. UNITED STATES ET AL. PHILADELPHIA WAREHOUSING & COLD STORAGE CO. ET AL. v. SAME. UNITED STATES ET AL. v. PHILADELPHIA WAREHOUSING & COLD STORAGE CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 18, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John W. Davis, with whom Messrs. H. Edgar Barnes, Allen S. Olmsted, 2d, and M. Hampton Todd were on the briefs, for Merchants Warehouse Co. et al.

Mr. John P. Connelly for Philadelphia Warehousing & Cold Storage Co.

Mr. J. Stanley Payne, Assistant Chief Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, with whom Solicitor General Thacher, Assistant to the Attorney General O'Brian, and Messrs. Elmer B. Collins, Special Assistant 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 J. Hickey for Gallagher et al.


MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

These are appeals under § 238 of the Judicial Code, from a decree of a District Court of three judges for Eastern Pennsylvania, dismissing the bills of complaint by which appellants, warehousing corporations doing business in Philadelphia, sought to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 44 F.2d 379. The order required the Reading Company and the Pennsylvania...

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