CARBONE BROS. & CO. v. UNITED STATES


194 F.Supp. 79 (1961)

CARBONE BROS. & CO., Inc., et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, and Interstate Commerce Commission and Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company, Intervening ny, Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

On Motions for Reargument June 2, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernstein, Weiss, Hammer & Parter, New York City, for plaintiffs. Norman A. Coplan, New York City, of counsel.

Richard E. Costello, New York City, for Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company. J. T. Clark, Cleveland, Ohio, of counsel.

Arthur J. Cerra, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, I.C.C., Washington, D. C., for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

John H. D. Wigger, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., W. Wallace Kirkpatrick, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Morton S. Robson, U. S. Atty., Southern Dist. of New York, New York City, Lee Loevinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty. for Southern Dist. of New York, New York City, for the United States.


SUGARMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs suing to annul and set aside the dismissal of their complaint presented to and heard by the Interstate Commerce Commission, 306 I.C.C. 360, move for summary judgment.

Plaintiffs charged before the Commission that the Erie Railroad Company (now Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company) in collecting from plaintiffs charges for switching and for icing melon cars consigned to plaintiffs were doing so unlawfully because the applicable...

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