DIXIE CARRIERS, INC. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. 9544.

143 F.Supp. 844 (1956)

DIXIE CARRIERS, Inc., Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc., Mississippi Valley Barge Line Company, American Barge Line Company, Union Barge Line Corporation, John I. Hay Company, Coyle Lines Incorporated, Federal Barge Lines, Inc., Waterways Freight Bureau, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

July 31, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Macleay, Harry C. Ames, Jr., Washington, D. C., Alan S. Dale, Houston, Tex., on the brief, Nuel D. Belnap, Belnap & McAuliffe, Chicago, Ill., T. S. Christopher, Christopher & Bailey, Fort Worth, Tex., Ames, Hill & Ames, Washington, D. C., Francis W. McInerny, Macleay, Lynch & MacDonald, Washington, D. C., Eastham, Hinds & Dale, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs.

John C. Ridley, Houston, Tex., Harvey Huston, Richard J. Murphy, Chicago, Ill., Palmer Hutcheson, Jr., Houston, Tex., on the brief, Edwin N. Bell, Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd, Houston, Tex., Harry E. Boe, Chicago, Ill., Robert G. Boes, Cleveland, Ohio, J. T. Clark, Cleveland, Ohio, William E. Davis, Kansas City, Mo., William R. McDowell, Dallas, Tex., Walter G. Treanor, St. Louis, Mo., Robert H. Bierma, Chicago, Ill., Ralph M. Buzek, Cincinnati, Ohio, Hutcheson, Taliaferro & Hutcheson, Houston, Tex., for intervenor Railroad Carriers.

John H. Earle, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Gordon Kroll, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., on the brief, Stanley Barnes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Malcolm R. Wilkey, U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for the United States.

H. Neil Garson, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., Robert W. Ginnane, General Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., on the brief for defendant, Interstate Commerce Comm.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge, HANNAY, Chief Judge, and INGRAHAM, District Judge.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

Involving the vacating of an Order suspending proposed rates, this case1 is a parallel of Amarillo-Borger Express v. United States, D.C.N.D.Tex., 138 F.Supp. 411 (three-Judge), and the variation in Long Island Railroad Co. v. United States, D.C.E.D.N.Y., 140 F.Supp. 823 (three-Judge), expressly approving it. We too, without the necessity...

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