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U.S. v. PENNSYLVANIA R. CO.

No. 47.

323 U.S. 612 (1945)

UNITED STATES ET AL. v. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 29, 1945.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Daniel W. Knowlton, with whom Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Berge, Messrs. Walter J. Cummings, Jr., Edward M. Reidy and Robert L. Pierce were on the brief, for the United States and the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Mr. Parker McCollester, with whom Messrs. James D. Carpenter, Jr., H.H. Larimore, Duane E. Minard and Arthur T. Vanderbilt were on the brief, for Forrest S. Smith, Trustee, et al., appellants in No. 47 and appellees in No. 48.

Mr. John Vance Hewitt, with whom Messrs. John A. Hartpence, Joseph F. Eshelman, R. Aubrey Bogley, David Asch, Charles Clark, Frank W. Gwathmey, Henry A. Jones, G.H. Muckley, J.P. Plunkett, Edward W. Wheeler and D. Lynch Younger were on the brief, for the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. et al., appellees in No. 47 and appellants in No. 48.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

Seatrain Lines, Inc., is a common carrier of goods by water. In 1929, its predecessor began to carry goods from Belle Chasse, Louisiana, to Havana, Cuba. Each of the vessels used was so constructed that it could carry a number of railroad cars, and special equipment was provided to hoist these cars from adjacent tracks on the docks and move them bodily into the vessels. It was thereby rendered unnecessary for goods...

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