UNITED STATES ET AL.
v.
AMERICAN SHEET & TIN PLATE CO. ET AL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued April 9, 12, 1937.
Decided May 17, 1937.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mr. Daniel W. Knowlton, with whom Solicitor General Reed, Assistant Attorney General Jackson, and Messrs. Elmer B. Collins and Edward M. Reidy were on the brief, for the United States and Interstate Commerce Commission, appellants.
Messrs. David A. Reed and John S. Burchmore, with whom Messrs. Arthur B. Van Buskirk, Robert L. Kirkpatrick, and Luther M. Walter were on the brief, for appellees.
By leave of Court, Messrs. Thomas P. Healy, Guernsey Orcutt, Andrew P. Martin, Marion B. Pierce, Charles R. Webber, M. Carter Hall, and Jervis Langdon, Jr., filed a brief, as amici curiae, on behalf of certain Railroad Companies, urging affirmance of the decree below.
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an appeal from decrees of a specially constituted District Court1 of three judges enjoining and setting aside orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission which required certain carriers to cease and desist from spotting cars on industrial plant tracks as part of the service rendered under interstate line-haul rates and from granting...
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