RISS & COMPANY v. ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS

Civ. A. No. 4056-54.

187 F.Supp. 306 (1960)

RISS & COMPANY, Inc., Plaintiff, v. ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS et al., Defendants.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

June 6, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Alvis Layne, Jr., Robert L. Wright, Lester M. Bridgeman, Morton A. Brody, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff Riss & Co., Inc.

William E. Miller, Stephen Ailes, Richard A. Whiting, Gregory S. Prince, Philip F. Welsh, Washington, D. C., for Assn. of American Railroads.

Stuart S. Ball, Richard J. Flynn, J. H. Hays, Amos M. Mathews, J. W. Nisbet, Chicago, Ill., Lawrence Cake, John Guandolo, Washington, D. C., for The Assn. of Western Railways.

Samuel E. Gates, New York City, Chisman Hanes, James L. Kaler, Washington, D. C., for Traffic Executive Assn. of Eastern Railroads.

C. Brewster Rhoads, Joseph W. Swain, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., for Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference.

Francis C. Reed, Powell Pierpoint, New York City, Robert M. Gray, Washington, D. C., for Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc.

Francis M. Shea, New York City, Prime F. Osborn, Louisville, Ky., for Atlantic Coast Line R. R. Co.

Stuart S. Ball, J. H. Hays, Amos M. Mathews, J. W. Nisbet, Chicago, Ill., for The Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co.

Hugh B. Cox, James H. McGlothlin, James C. McKay, Washington, D. C., Edwin H. Burgess, John L. Rogers, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for The Baltimore & O. R. R. Co.

Edward K. Wheeler, Robert G. Seaks, Washington, D. C., for The Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co.

Stuart S. Ball, J. H. Hays, Amos M. Mathews, J. W. Nisbet, Chicago, Ill., for Chicago, B. & Q. R. Co., Chicago, M., St. P. & Pac. Ry. Co., Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co., and Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co.

Hugh B. Cox, James H. McGlothlin, James C. McKay, W. T. Pierson, Washington, D. C., P. H. Donovan, Cleveland, Ohio, for Erie R. R. Co.

Stuart S. Ball, J. H. Hays, Amos M. Mathews, J. W. Nisbet, Chicago, Ill., for Great Northern Ry. Co.

Stuart S. Ball, J. H. Hays, Amos M. Mathews, J. W. Nisbet, Chicago, Ill., for Illinois Cent. R. R. Co., Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co., Missouri Pac. Ry. Co.

Edward K. Wheeler, Robert G. Seaks, Washington, D. C., Gerald E. Dwyer, New York City, for New York Cent. R. Co.

Stuart S. Ball, J. H. Hays, Amos M. Mathews, J. W. Nisbet, Chicago, Ill., for Northern Pac. Ry. Co.

Hugh B. Cox, James H. McGlothlin, James C. McKay, Washington, D. C., John B. Prizer, Carl Helmetag, Jr., Lewin W. Wickes, Philadelphia, Pa., for The Pennsylvania R. Co.

Stuart S. Ball, J. H. Hays, Amos M. Mathews, J. W. Nisbet, Chicago, Ill., for St. Louis-S. F. Ry. Co., Southern Pac. Co., Union Pac. R. R. Co., Wabash R. R. Co., Minneapolis, St. P. & S. S. M. Ry. Co.

Francis M. Shea, New York City, Henry L. Walker, Washington, D. C., for Southern Ry. Co.

Francis M. Shea, Harold J. Gallagher, New York City, Charles T. Abeles, Richmond, Va., for Seaboard Air Line Ry. Co.


SIRICA, District Judge.

This is a private antitrust action for treble damages and injunction brought by Riss & Company, a Kansas City trucking concern, against twenty-three of the nation's Class I railroads, four railroad associations and a public relations firm, Carl Byoir and Associates, Inc.1

Plaintiff's contention, as set forth on page one of its "Memorandum Summarizing Plaintiff's Conspiracy Proof against all Defendants...

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