STATE OF FLORIDA v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 690, 691, 695.

4 F.Supp. 477 (1933)

STATE OF FLORIDA et al. v. UNITED STATES et al. WILSON CYPRESS CO. et al. v. SAME. F. S. BUFFUM CO., Inc., v. SAME.

District Court, N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

February 24, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cary D. Landis, Atty. Gen., for the State of Florida.

Theo. T. Turnbull, of Tallahassee, Fla., for complainant Florida Railroad Commission.

Henry P. Adair and F. C. Hillyer, both of Jacksonville, Fla., J. Van Dyke Norman, of Louisville, Ky., and August G. Gutheim, of Washington, D. C., for other complainants.

Elmer B. Collins, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for the United States.

J. Stanley Payne, Asst. Chief Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, of Washington, D. C., for defendant Interstate Commerce Commission.

Robert C. Alston, of Atlanta, Ga., for Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., intervening defendant.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge, and UNDERWOOD and STRUM, District Judges.

Three bills were filed against the United States and Interstate Commerce Commission, one by the state of Florida and the Florida Railroad Commission, another by Wilson Cypress Company and Wilson Lumber Company, and the third by F. S. Buffum & Co., Inc. Each upon similar allegations seeks to set aside and enjoin an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission made July 5, 1932, and amended July 28...

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