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BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD v. U. S.

No. 310.

358 U.S. 68 (1958)

BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 17, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl E. Newton and William T. Griffin for the Boston & Maine Railroad et al., Richard Swan Buell for the New Jersey & New York Railroad Co. et al., and Otto M. Buerger for the Long Island Rail Road Co., appellants in No. 310. Of counsel was Theodore S. Hope, Jr.

S. R. Brittingham, Jr., F. E. Baukhages, Hewitt Biaett, R. R. Bongartz, S. G. Boxley, R. D. Brooks, G. L. Buland, Martin L. Cassell, M. L. Countryman, Jr., E. S. Davis, Rowland L. Davis, Tom M. Davis, J. P. Fishwick, E. D. Grinnell, Jr., W. L. Grubbs, W. R. McDowell, R. K. Merrill, M. A. Meyer, Jr., Leo H. Pou, W. C. Purnell, J. F. Reilly, A. C. Scott, M. C. Smith, Frank Vesper, Toll R. Ware and E. J. Zoll, Jr. for appellants in No. 322, and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. et al., appellees in No. 310.

Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Hansen, Robert W. Ginnane and I. K. Hay for the United States and the Interstate Commerce Commission, appellees.

PER CURIAM.

These cases concern the range of the Interstate Commerce Commission's power over rates for car hire in railroading. Because they predominantly originate freight, long-haul trunk-line railroads own most of the freight cars in the industry. Short-haul terminal railroads, on the other hand, mainly terminate freight; to avoid needless duplication, they hire the cars of the long-haul roads rather than replace them with their own. The compensation to be paid...

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