TEXAS & N. O. R. CO. v. LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COM'N

Nos. 272-277.

2 F.Supp. 622 (1933)

TEXAS & N. O. R. CO. v. LOUISIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION et al. and five other cases.

District Court, E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

January 10, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry McCall, of New Orleans, La., for Texas & N. O. R. Co.

Selim B. Lemle, of New Orleans, La., for Yazoo & M. V. R. Co.

Esmond Phelps, of New Orleans, La., for Texas & P. Ry. Co.

Burford & White, of Shreveport, La., and Esmond Phelps, of New Orleans, La., for Louisiana & A. Ry. Co.

H. Payne Breazeale, of Baton Rouge, La., for New Orleans, T. & M. Ry. and New Iberia & N. R. Co.

Wylie M. Barrow, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, for defendants.

Before FOSTER, Circuit Judge, and BORAH and COX, District Judges.


BORAH, District Judge.

These suits, which were consolidated for trial, are brought by the carriers operating in the sugar region of this state to annul and enjoin the enforcement of an order of the Louisiana Public Service Commission requiring the carriers to reduce rates on sugar cane in car loads between points in the state of Louisiana. The effect of the order so made, if enforced, will be to reduce the existing rates on sugar cane about 15 per cent. and it is...

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