STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 836.

128 F.Supp. 718 (1955)

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, The North Carolina Department of Agriculture, the North Carolina State Highway and Public Works Commission, The North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, Inc., and The Farmers Cooperative Exchange, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, The Interstate Commerce Commission, Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad Company et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. North Carolina.

Decided February 11, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry McMullan, Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, I. Beverly Lake and John Hill Paylor, Asst. Attys. Gen. of North Carolina, for State of North Carolina and North Carolina Department of Agriculture.

R. Brookes Peters, Kenneth Wooten, Jr., J. Melville Broughton, Jr., and Robert B. Broughton, Raleigh, N. C., for North Carolina State Highway and Public Works Commission.

Stanley N. Barnes, Asst. Atty. Gen., James E. Kilday and Willard R. Memler, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., and Julian T. Gaskill, U. S. Atty., Goldsboro, N. C., for the United States.

Edward M. Reidy, Gen. Counsel, and Leo H. Pou, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.

L. G. Anderson, Washington, D. C., James B. McDonough, Jr., Norfolk, Va., Charles P. Reynolds, Washington, D. C., Arthur J. Winder, Norfolk, Va., Henry Joyner, Raleigh, N. C., for defendant railroads.

Before PARKER, Circuit Judge, and GILLIAM and WARLICK, District Judges.


PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an action to set aside and enjoin the enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission entered under Section 13(4) of the Interstate Commerce Act, 49 U.S.C.A. § 13(4),1 granting an increase of intrastate freight rates on railroads in the State of North Carolina. A court of three judges has been constituted as required by statute, the case has...

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