INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION v. PIEDMONT & N. RY. CO.

No. 253.

51 F.2d 766 (1931)

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION et al. v. PIEDMONT & N. RY. CO.

District Court, W. D. South Carolina.

May 23, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel W. Knowlton and Nelson Thomas, both of Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.

W. S. O'B. Robinson, Jr., and R. S. Hutchison, both of Charlotte, N. C., and H. J. Haynsworth, of Greenville, S. C., for Piedmont & N. Ry. Co.

L. E. Jeffries and S. S. Alderman, both of Washington, D. C., and Blythe & Bonham, of Greenville, S. C., for Southern Ry. Co. and others.

Carl H. Davis and F. B. Grier, both of Wilmington, N. C., for Charleston & W. C. Ry. Co. and for Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.

William C. Burger, of Louisville, Ky., for Louisville & N. R. Co.

James J. McLaughlin, of Johnson City, Tenn., for Carolina, C. & O. Ry., for Carolina, C. & O. Ry. of South Carolina, and for Clinchfield Northern Ry. of Kentucky.


GLENN, District Judge.

This bill in equity presents in a new form a controversy which has already been before the courts. Piedmont & N. R. Co. v. U. S. (D. C.) 30 F.2d 421. It grows out of the proposed extension of the lines of the Piedmont & Northern Railway. It involves one major question, although the range of investigation and consequent testimony is very wide. This question may be summed up in a few words, viz.: Does...

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