ARMOUR & CO. v. CHICAGO, M., ST. P. & PAC. R. CO.

No. 10259.

188 F.2d 603 (1951)

ARMOUR & CO. et al. v. CHICAGO, M., ST. P. & PAC. R. CO. et al. CHICAGO, M., ST. P. & PAC. R. CO. et al. v. ARMOUR & CO. et al.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 23, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul E. Blanchard, Frank J. Madden, William F. Price and Merrill Shepard, Frank W. Sullivan, Alexander T. Spare, John P. Staley, and Louis R. Simpson, all of Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Pope & Ballard, Chicago, Ill., of counsel for Cudahy Packing Co.

Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt, Chicago, Ill., of counsel for John Morrell & Co.

Carson L. Taylor, Albert B. Enoch, S. R. Brittingham, Jr., and Bryce L. Hamilton, all of Chicago, Ill., Edwin R. Eckersall, Elmer W. Freytag, P. F. Gault, James E. Goggin, C. W. Krohl, Edward H. Murnane, Joseph H. Wright, Campbell, Clark & Miller, and Winston, Strawn, Shaw & Black all of Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for appellee.

Before KERNER, FINNEGAN and LINDLEY, Circuit Judges.


LINDLEY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal from the judgment entered in a case arising as a result of the consolidation, in the court below, of 248 constituent suits, 230 of which were actions by plaintiffs, shippers of fresh meats, against defendants, common carriers by railroad, to recover overcharges in freight rates, the shippers averring that the rates charged for transportation of specified carload shipments of meat exceeded the rates published in the applicable...

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