WARD TRANSPORT v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 4595.

125 F.Supp. 363 (1954)

WARD TRANSPORT, Inc., a Colorado corporation; T. Clarence Bridge and Harry W. Bridge, dba Bridge Brothers; Groendyke Transport, Inc., an Oklahoma corporation; Earl Houk, dba Western Nebraska Transport Service; Frank C. Klein & Co., Inc., a Colorado corporation; Melton Transport Company, a Wyoming corporation; R. B. (Dick) Wilson, a Colorado corporation, Plaintiffs, Barlow's Service Inc., Intervenor, v. UNITED STATES of America; Interstate Commerce Commission; The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, a corporation; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, a corporation; Chicago and North Western Railway Company, a corporation; Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation; the Colorado and Southern Railroad Company, a corporation; the Colorado & Wyoming Railway Company, a corporation; the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company, a corporation; the Great Western Railway Company, a corporation; Missouri Pacific Railroad Company (Guy A. Thompson, Trustee) a corporation; Union Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Colorado.

November 1, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert L. Vogl, William F. Reynard, Denver, Colo., for plaintiffs. Robert N. Burchmore, John S. Burchmore, and Nuel D. Belnap, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Means, Means & Roberts and Stanley H. Johnson, Denver, Colo., for intervenor.

Stanley N. Barnes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Donald E. Kelley, U. S. Atty., Denver, Colo., James E. Kilday, Albert Parker, Maurice A. Fitzgerald, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., for the United States.

Edward M. Reidy, Chief Counsel, and Allen Crenshaw, Associate Chief Counsel, Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Douglas McHendrie, Denver, Colo., S. R. Brittingham, Jr., Chicago, Ill., F. O. Steadry, Chicago, Ill., W. V. Nodges, Jr., Denver, Colo., Harry E. Boe, Chicago, Ill., John C. Street, Robert F. Welborn, H. M. Boyle, M. B. Holt, Jr., Denver, Colo., J. W. Preston, Pueblo, Colo., Toll R. Ware, St. Louis, Mo., E. G. Knowles, Denver, Colo., Elmer B. Collins, Omaha, Neb., James A. Gillen, Chicago, Ill., for defendant railroads.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, PICKETT, Circuit Judge, and KNOUS, District Judge.


KNOUS, Chief Judge.

This is an action brought by Ward Transport, Incorporated, and six other motor carriers against the United States, the Interstate Commerce Commission and ten defendant railroad corporations to enjoin, set aside and annul the report and orders entered by the Commission in a proceeding entitled "Investigation and Suspension Docket No. 5853, Petroleum from Colorado and Wyoming to Western Truck Line Territory." Since the filing of the action Barlow...

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