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ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD CO. v. GULF, MOBILE & OHIO R. CO.

Civ. A. No. 9322.

191 F.Supp. 275 (1961)

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company, Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad Company, Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, and The Texas and Pacific Railway Company, Plaintiffs, v. GULF, MOBILE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

February 10, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Monroe & Lemann, J. Raburn Monroe, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke & Hopkins, Harry McCall, Jr., New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

Curtis, Foster, Dillon & Huppenbauer, Gerard M. Dillon, John C. Foster, Rivet & Rivet, Charles J. Rivet, New Orleans, La., for defendant.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

This case affords another example1 of the occult science of drafting big contracts for big undertakings in which elaborate recitals, detailed descriptions and nice definitions, cautiously conjunctive and disjunctive statements and restatements, wondrously complex formulae, deftly balanced essential and non-essential, superior and subordinate stipulations, exceptions and exclusions and provisos, intricately...

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