UNITED STATES v. READING COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 22787.

184 F.Supp. 206 (1960)

UNITED STATES v. READING COMPANY.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

June 2, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter E. Alessandroni, U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., George F. Foley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civil Division, Dept. of Justice, Sullivan Cistone, Asst. U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

White & Williams, by John Dautrich, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


GRIM, District Judge.

In May of 1955 the Commodity Credit Corporation shipped by rail several carloads of frozen beef which were to be loaded aboard ship in Philadelphia for export. Three carloads of beef, sent in refrigerator cars to defendant Reading Company's Port Richmond Terminal in Philadelphia, were spoiled because the cars were not iced while they lay at the terminal for a period of more than a week. The cars remained at the terminal on instructions of American...

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