NEW YORK CENT. R. CO. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 51-65.

99 F.Supp. 394 (1951)

NEW YORK CENT. R. CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

July 30, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. J. Fletcher, Washington, D. C., and Kenneth F. Stone, New York City (Neal J. Holland, Boston, Mass., Francis L. Brown, B. J. Viviano, New York City, and John F. Reilly, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiffs.

Walter D. Matson, Attorney, Office of the Solicitor, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., and William D. McFarlane, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (H. G. Morison, Asst. Atty. Gen., James E. Kilday and John F. Baecher, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., George F. Garrity, U. S. Atty., Boston, Mass., and Charles W. Bucy, Associate Solicitor, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the Secretary of Agriculture, intervening plaintiff, and United States of America, defendant.

B. A. Brickley, Boston, Mass. (Timothy J. Murphy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Commonwealth of Massachusetts, William L. Baxter, Corp. Counsel, and Ashelen P. Senopoulos, Asst. Corp. Counsel, City of Boston, Oliver R. Waite, and Brickley, Sears & Cole, all of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for Port of Boston Authority, Maritime Association of Boston Chamber of Commerce, Inc., Boston Grain & Flour Exchange, Foreign Commerce Club of Boston, Inc., and City of Boston, intervening plaintiffs.

Wilbur La Roe, Jr., Washington, D. C. (Henry E. Foley, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, all of Boston, Mass., Leander I. Shelley, General Counsel, Port of New York Authority, New York City, Frederick E. Brown, Arthur L. Winn, Jr., and Samuel H. Moerman, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for Port of New York Authority, intervening plaintiff.

Edward M. Reidy, Associate Chief Counsel, Washington, D. C. (Daniel W. Knowlton, Chief Counsel, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for Interstate Commerce Commission, defendant.

Harry C. Ames, Washington, D. C. (Sumner Babcock, Boston, Mass., and James B. Doak, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia and Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia, intervening defendants.

Paul V. Miller, Philadelphia, Pa. (Anthony P. Donadio, Lockwood W. Fogg, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., W. Harvey Small, Baltimore, Md., and Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston, Mass., on the brief), for Baltimore & O. R. Co., Reading Co., Pennsylvania R. Co., and Western Maryland Ry. Co., intervening defendants.

Karl J. Grimm, Baltimore, Md., for Baltimore Ass'n of Commerce and Baltimore Chamber of Commerce, intervening defendants.

Alfred G. Malagodi, Asst. U. S. Atty., Boston, Mass., for U. S.

Foley, Hoag & Eliot and Herbert L. Berman, all of Boston, Mass., for Port of New York Authority; also Wilbur La Roe, Jr., Washington, D.C., for same Intervenor.

Thomas N. Biddison, Baltimore, Md., City Sol., and Daniel B. Leonard, Asst. City Sol., for Maryland City Council of Baltimore.

Bailey Aldrich, Choate, Hall & Stewart, all of Boston, Mass., for Pennsylvania R. Co., Baltimore & O. R. Co., Reading Co., Western Maryland Ry. Co., intervenors.

Before MAGRUDER, Circuit Judge, and SWEENEY and FORD, District Judges.


MAGRUDER, Circuit Judge.

This action was brought by the New York Central, Boston and Maine, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, and Lehigh Valley railroads, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1336, 2321-2325, to set aside and enjoin enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission cancelling certain new rate schedules proposed by the plaintiff railroads. Investigation and Suspension Docket No. 5641, Export Grain...

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