SEATRAIN LINES v. PENNSYLVANIA R. CO.

No. 10944.

207 F.2d 255 (1953)

SEATRAIN LINES, Inc. v. PENNSYLVANIA R. CO. et al.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided September 10, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl E. Newton and Theodore S. Hope, Jr., New York City (Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine and Edwin L. Meyer, New York City, Jamieson & Walsh and Crawford Jamieson, Trenton, N. J., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant Seatrain Lines, Inc.

Hugh B. Cox, Washington, D. C. (John B. Prizer, Philadelphia, Pa., Hugh B. Cox, Washington, D. C., Joseph F. Eshelman, Philadelphia, Pa., and Sackett M. Dickinson, Trenton, N. J., for Pennsylvania R. Co.; Charles Cook Howell, Wilmington, N. C., Francis M. Shea and Lawrence J. Latto, Washington, D. C., and U. B. Ellis, Wilmington, N. C., for Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.; Sidney S. Alderman, Henry L. Walker and Francis M. Shea, Washington, D. C., and Waldron M. Ward, Newark, N. J., for Southern Ry. Co.; Hugh B. Cox, Washington, D. C., L. James Huegel, Baltimore, Md., and Emory, Langan & Lamb, Jersey City, N. J., for Baltimore & O. R. Co.; Harold J. Gallagher, New York City, James B. McDonough, Jr., W. R. C. Cocke and Chas. T. Abeles, Norfolk, Va., for Seaboard Air Line R. Co.; Minard, Cooper, Gaffey & Webb, Newark, N. J., Willis T. Pierson, Washington, D. C., and Duane E. Minard, Newark, N. J., for defendant-appellee Erie R. Co.; Pitney, Hardin and Ward and Waldron M. Ward, Newark, N. J., J. Carter Fort, Thomas L. Preston, and Gerald D. Finney, Washington, D. C., for appellee, Association of American Railroads; Carey, Schenk & Jardine and Robert Carey, Jr., Newark, N. J., H. T. Lively, Louisville, Ky., and Thomas V. Jardine, Newark, N. J., for defendant-respondent Louisville & N. R. Co., on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before MARIS, McLAUGHLIN and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.


HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order, D. C., 108 F.Supp. 113, dismissing on jurisdictional grounds a complaint of violation of the antitrust laws wherein plaintiff, Seatrain Lines, Inc., alleges that the defendant railroads and associations of railroads have injured it by concerted action in restraint of trade. Seatrain seeks both injunctive relief and damages.

The complaint is lengthy, 36 pages of allegations...

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