OLD COLONY FURNITURE CO. v. UNITED STATES

Civil No. 50-304.

95 F.Supp. 507 (1951)

OLD COLONY FURNITURE CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

January 31, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gould H. Coleman, Gardner, Mass., for plaintiff.

Daniel W. Knowlton, Chief Counsel, Edward M. Reidy, Associate Chief Counsel, for Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., Gerald L. Phelps, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Harold E. Spencer, Chicago, Ill., Prime F. Osborn, III, Mobile, Ala., Neal J. Holland, Boston, Mass., for Illinois Central Railroad Co. et al., Intervening Defendants.


FORD, District Judge.

This an action under 28 U.S.C.A. § 1336 to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission dismissing complaints brought before that Commission under 49 U.S.C.A. § 9 in which petitioners here sought reparation for alleged overcharges by certain railroads which have been allowed to intervene as defendants in the present action.

Between 1942 and 1946 petitioners paid freight on various shipments, by rail, of wooden automobile...

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