UNITED STATES v. KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO.

No. 15013.

217 F.2d 763 (1954)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert H. Margolies, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Warren E. Burger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edward L. Scheufler, U. S. Atty., Kenneth C. West, Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., and Melvin Richter, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Richard S. Righter, Kansas City, Mo. (William E. Davis, Joseph R. Brown, Kansas City, Mo., William M. Stapleton, Albany, and Lathrop, Righter, Blackwell & Parker, Kansas City, Mo., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SANBORN, JOHNSEN and COLLET, Circuit Judges.


JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

Commodity Credit Corporation, 15 U.S.C.A. § 713 et seq., shipped, between April 20, 1945, and August 2, 1946, over Kansas City Southern Railway Co., from Kansas City, Mo.-Kan., to Port Arthur, Texas, 5915 cars of wheat, designated for export to European, Asiatic and African ports.

The rate fixed by the carrier's tariff for a line-hauling of such export grain from Kansas City to Port Arthur was 24½ cents, with a statement in...

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