NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD R. CO. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 8679.

199 F.Supp. 635 (1961)

NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN and HARTFORD RAILROAD COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants, Sea-Land Service, Inc., and Seatrain Lines, Inc., Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court D. Connecticut.

November 15, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl Helmetag, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. (Thomas P. Hackett, and Eugene E. Hunt, New Haven, Conn., Andrew C. Armstrong, Baltimore, Md., Edwin N. Bell, Houston, Tex., James A. Bistline, Washington, D. C., Ernest D. Grinnell, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., J. Edgar McDonald, New York City, Clarence Raymond, Louisville, Ky., Charles P. Reynolds, Richmond, Va., Albert B. Russ, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla., and Toll R. Ware, St. Louis, Mo., of counsel), for plaintiffs.

B. Franklin Taylor, Jr., Associate Gen. Counsel, I. C. C., Washington, D. C., Richard H. Stern, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington D. C. (Lee Loevinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Harry W. Hultgren, Jr., U. S. Atty., D. Conn., Hartford, Conn., and Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, I. C. C., Washington, D. C., of counsel), for defendants.

Warren Price, Jr., Washington, D. C. (Albert W. Cretella, New Haven, Conn., and William H. Ambrecht, Jr., Mobile, Ala., of counsel), for defendant-intervenor Sea-Land Service, Inc.

Ralph D. Ray, New York City (Morris Tyler, Gumbart, Corbin, Tyler & Cooper, New Haven, Conn., Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff, Alan S. Kuller, and Charles J. Prentiss, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-intervenor Seatrain Lines, Inc.

Before HINCKS, Circuit Judge, and ANDERSON and TIMBERS, District Judges.


HINCKS, Circuit Judge.

This is an action brought by several railroads to enjoin an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, entered pursuant to a report1 published in 313 I.C.C. 23, directing them to cancel substantial rate reductions for 66 listed movements of their trailer-on-flat-car (TOFC) service between points in the East and Texas. Two water carriers, Sea-Land Service, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Sea-Land), and Seatrain...

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