UNITED STATES v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

No. 6690.

88 F.2d 780 (1937)

UNITED STATES ex rel. MAINE POTATO GROWERS & SHIPPERS ASS'N et al. v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION et al.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided January 4, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick E. Brown, Wilbur La Roe, Jr., and Arthur L. Winn, Jr., all of Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Joseph T. Sherier, J. Stanley Payne, and G. F. Snyder, all of Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before ROBB, VAN ORSDEL, GRONER, and STEPHENS, JJ.


GRONER, J.

This is a mandamus proceeding. The appellants are an association of Maine potato growers and shippers and two of their distributors, one located at Norfolk and the other at Savannah. Respondent Bangor & Aroostook is a short line railroad extending from the northern part of Maine to Searsport on the Maine coast and to Northern Maine Junction in the interior, where it connects with the Maine Central Railroad. It is essentially a potato road just as the...

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