UNITED STATES v. TRUCKING CO.

No. 724.

310 U.S. 344 (1940)

UNITED STATES ET AL. v. CHICAGO HEIGHTS TRUCKING CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 20, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. A.H. Feller, with whom Solicitor General Biddle, Assistant Attorney General Arnold, and Messrs. Frank Coleman, William J. Campbell, Daniel W. Knowlton, and F.M. Reidy were on the brief, for appellants.

Messrs. John R. Turney and R.E. Quirk for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

Respondents are forty-one interstate common carriers operating motor vehicles subject to the Interstate Commerce Commission under the Federal Motor Carrier Act of 1935.1 Our decision turns upon the validity of an order of the Commission cancelling certain proposed tariffs of these carriers upon the ground that they were unlawfully discriminatory in affording lower rates to "forwarders...

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