SWAYNE & HOYT, LTD. v. UNITED STATES

No. 60850.

18 F.Supp. 25 (1936)

SWAYNE & HOYT, LIMITED, et al. v. UNITED STATES.

District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

June 29, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elisha Hanson, Eliot C. Lovett, and Frank Lyon, all of Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Leslie C. Garnett, U. S. Atty., H. L. Underwood, Asst. U. S. Atty., and R. H. Hallett, Asst. Counsel, U. S. Shipping Board Bureau, all of Washington, D.C., for defendant.

Before GRONER, J., United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and WHEAT, C. J., and PROCTOR, J., District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.


PER CURIAM.

This is an equity suit brought by plaintiffs to set aside an order of the Secretary of Commerce requiring plaintiffs (who compose the Gulf Intercoastal Conference) to cease and desist the practice of entering with shippers into certain rate contracts.

The order complained of restrained plaintiffs from charging two separate rates for the same service: One, the higher, charged against those shippers who refused to sign contracts agreeing to use plaintiffs...

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