FLORIDA v. UNITED STATES

No. 342.

292 U.S. 1 (1934)

FLORIDA ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 2, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Theodore T. Turnbull, Henry P. Adair, and J.V. Norman, with whom Mr. Cary D. Landis, Attorney General of Florida, and Messrs. C.G. Ashby, August G. Gutheim, and F.C. Hillyer were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. J. Stanley Payne, with whom Solicitor General Biggs and Messrs. Elmer B. Collins, Harold M. Stephens, and Daniel W. Knowlton were on the brief, for the United States and Interstate Commerce Commission, appellees.

Mr. Robert C. Alston, with whom Messrs. Carl H. Davis, W.E. Kay, Wm. Hart Sibley, and Alfred P. Thom were on the briefs, for the Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., appellee.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal presents the question of the validity of an order made by the Interstate Commerce Commission on July 5, 1932, requiring the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company to desist from an unjust discrimination found to exist in the relation of intrastate and interstate rates and to maintain certain rates for the intrastate transportation of logs, as described,...

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