BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 9237.

151 F.Supp. 258 (1957)

The BALTIMORE and OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY, Canton Railroad Company, Western Maryland Railway Company, Baltimore Association of Commerce, the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce, the Steamship Trade Association of Baltimore, Inc., Baltimore Custom House Brokers and Forwarders Association, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, Plaintiffs, and Maryland Port Authority, Intervening Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Interstate Commerce Commission, the New York Central Railroad Company, Erie Railroad Company, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and C. W. Boin, Agent, Defendants and Armco Steel Corporation, M. A. Hanna Company, Iron Ore Company of Canada, National Steel Corporation (Weirton Steel Company Division), Republic Steel Corporation, Wheeling Steel Corporation, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, the Port of New York Authority, the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia, the Delaware River Port Authority, the City of Philadelphia, Port of Boston Commission, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, and the Boston Maine Railroad Company, Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

April 26, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin H. Burgess, Baltimore, Md. (William C. Purnell, Baltimore, Md. Jervis Langdon, Jr., Anthony P. Donadio, John S. Stanley, Charles J. Henry, Jr., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for plaintiffs.

Harry C. Ames, Washington, D. C. (Thomas N. Biddison, F. Clifford Hane, Baltimore, Md., attorneys for Mayor and City Council, on brief), for Baltimore Ass'n of Commerce and other Baltimore Commercial Interests, plaintiffs.

J. Crossan Cooper, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for Canton R. Co., plaintiff.

William L. Marbury, Baltimore, Md. (Donald Macleay, Washington, D. C., and Franklin G. Allen, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for Maryland Port Authority, plaintiff.

John H. D. Wigger, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Victor R. Hansen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Walter E. Black, Jr., U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., James E. Kilday, Attorney, Department of Justice, Robert W. Ginnane, General Counsel and I. K. Hay, Assistant General Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., on brief), for defendants.

John F. Donelan, Washington, D. C. (Dickson R. Loos, Washington, D. C., Wendell D. Allen, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for Armco Steel Corp., M. A. Hanna Co., Iron Ore Co. of Canada, National Steel Corp. (Weirton Steel Company Division), Republic Steel Corp., Wheeling Steel Corp., and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., intervenors.

Henry E. Foley, Boston, Mass. (Herbert M. Brune, Jr., Baltimore, Md., and Clarence I. Peterson, Boston, Mass., on brief), for Port of Boston Commission, intervening defendant.

William Q. Keenan, New Haven, Conn. (Herbert M. Brune, Baltimore, Md., and Robert Bleakney, Jr., Boston, Mass., on brief), for New York, New Haven & Hartford R. Co. and for Boston & Maine R. Co., defendants.

Richard J. Murphy, Chicago, Ill., and Samuel H. Moerman, Washington, D. C. (M. C. Smith, Jr., Cleveland, Ohio, Robert D. Brooks, Sidney Goldstein, Francis A. Mulhern, New York City, Wilbur La Roe, Jr., Arthur L. Winn, Jr., J. Stanley Payne, Washington, D. C., Walter J. Myskowski, New Haven, Conn., Nicholas G. Penniman III, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for Erie R. Co., defendant, New York Cent. R. Co. and Port of New York Authority, intervening defendants.

Guernsey Orcutt, Philadelphia, Pa. (Richard R. Bongartz, Philadelphia, Pa., William Pepper Constable and George W. Constable, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for Pennsylvania R. Co. and C. W. Boin, Agent, defendants.

David E. Pinsky, Asst. City Sol., Philadelphia, Pa. (David Berger, City Sol., Philadelphia, Pa., on brief), for City of Philadelphia, intervening defendant.

George M. Radcliffe, Baltimore, Md., and Frederick H. Knight, Philadelphia, Pa., on brief for Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia, intervening defendant.

Warren Price, Jr., Washington, D. C. (George M. Radcliffe, Baltimore, Md., Morris Duane, Philadelphia, Pa., Bruce A. Wallace, Camden, N. J., on brief), for Delaware River Port Authority, intervening defendant.

Before SOPER, Circuit Judge, CHESNUT and R. DORSEY WATKINS, District Judges.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Western Maryland Railway Company, Canton Railroad Company and certain civic authorities and commercial organizations of Baltimore, Maryland, to set aside decisions and orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission which prescribed parity of railroad rates on imported iron ore from the ports of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York to seventeen destinations in the eastern portion...

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