BALTIMORE & O. R. CO. v. UNITED STATES


22 F.Supp. 533 (1937)

BALTIMORE & O. R. CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES.

District Court, N. D. New York.

December 27, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward A. Kaier, of Chicago, Ill., and Edw. H. Burgess, of New York City, for plaintiffs.

J. Stanley Payne, of Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Elmer B. Collins, of Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Wayne W. Wolford, of Washington, D. C., for New Orleans Joint Traffic Bureau.

Laurence F. Daspit, of New Orleans, La., for Henderson Sugar Refinery.

C. R. Hillyer, of Chicago, Ill., for Savannah Sugar Refining Corporation.

John F. Finerty, of Washington, D. C., for National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey.

Edgar Watkins, of Atlanta, Ga., for the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

Before L. HAND, Circuit Judge, and COOPER and COXE, District Judges.


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This cause comes up for trial upon petition and answer in a suit to set aside three orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission, suspending certain rates filed with the Commission by the plaintiff carriers, and ordering lower maximum rates to be put into effect. It will clarify the discussion to define in advance several of the terms to be used. "Official Territory" means that lying north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi, with a little...

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