NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES


200 F.Supp. 944 (1961)

NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Canton Railroad Company, Western Maryland Railway Company, Maryland Port Authority, Baltimore Association of Commerce, and the Delaware River Port Authority, Intervening Defendants. ERIE-LACKAWANNA RAILROAD COMPANY and the Port of New York Authority, Plaintiffs v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Canton Railroad Company, Western Maryland Railway Company, Maryland Port Authority, Baltimore Association of Commerce, and the Delaware River Port Authority, Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

December 19, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney Goldstein, New York City and Samuel H. Moerman, Washington, D. C. (M. C. Smith, Jr., J. T. Clark, Cleveland, Ohio, F. A. Mulhern, Newark, N. J., and Patrick J. Falvey, New York City, Arthur L. Winn, Jr., Washington, D. C., J. Raymond Clark, Philadelphia, Pa., and James M. Henderson, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for Erie-Lackawanna R. Co. and Port of New York Authority, plaintiffs.

Richard J. Murphy, Chicago, Ill., George J. Schwarz, New York City (Gerald E. Dwyer, Robert D. Brooks, New York City, of counsel), for New York Cent. R. Co., plaintiff.

Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., by Robert M. Hausman, New York City, for United States of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, defendants.

Donald M. Dunn, New York City, and Franklin G. Allen, Baltimore, Md. (William L. Marbury, John C. Cooper, III, Baltimore, Md., Donald Macleay, Washington, D. C., J. Crossman Cooper, Jr., Baltimore, Md., Karl J. Grimm, Baltimore, Md., of counsel), for Baltimore & O. R. Co., Canton R. Co., Western Maryland R. Co., Maryland Port Authority and Baltimore Ass'n of Commerce, intervening defendants.

Warren Price, Jr., Washington, D. C. (David Hartfield, Jr., New York City, Morris Duane, Philadelphia, Pa., Francis W. Sullivan, Philadelphia, Pa., Bruce A. Wallace, Camden, N. J., of counsel), for Delaware River Port Authority, intervening defendant.

Before FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge, and METZNER and FEINBERG, District Judges.


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, in one the New York Central R. R. Co. and in the other the Erie-Lackawanna R. R. Co. and the Port of New York Authority, have brought these actions to enjoin so much of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission as directs the plaintiff carriers to cancel proposed tariffs that would have reduced the rates on imported iron ore from New York to steel-producing centers in eastern Ohio and in West Virginia to the same level as...

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