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NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 774.

145 F.Supp. 25 (1956)

NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America et al., Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Virginia.

September 27, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. P. Fishwick, Roanoke, Va. (R. B. Claytor, Roanoke, Va., Robert H. Bierma, Chicago, Ill., Kemper A. Dobbins, Cleveland, Ohio, John W. Hanifin, Richmond, Va., Martin A. Meyer, Jr., Washington, D. C., Richard J. Murphy and Erle J. Zoll, Jr., Chicago, Ill., on the brief), for Norfolk & W. Ry. Co.

Charles R. Esherick, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Victor R. Hansen, Asst. Atty. Gen., James E. Kilday, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and John Strickler, U. S. Atty., Roanoke, Va., on the brief), for the United States.

Leo H. Pou, Associate Gen. Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C. (Robert W. Ginnane, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Harvard R. Osmond, Chicago, Ill. (David O. Mathews, Chicago, Ill., John R. Sims, Jr., Washington, D. C., on the brief), for intervenor Chicago & E. I. R. Co.

Homer S. Carpenter, Washington, D. C. (William M. Maddox, Washington, D. C., and William B. Hopkins, Roanoke, Va., on the brief), for intervenor Property Owners' Committee.

Before SOPER, Circuit Judge, PAUL, Chief Judge, and BARKSDALE, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

The Norfolk and Western Railway Company and twenty-one other important coal-carrying railroads in eastern and midwestern United States brought this action against the United States under the provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act, 49 U.S.C.A. § 1 et seq.,1 to secure the adjudication of a three-judge court annulling and setting aside certain orders of the Interstate Commerce...

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