BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 61-38-S.

202 F.Supp. 830 (1962)

BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD and The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

February 16, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Bleakney, Jr., Neal Holland, Henry E. Foley, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., James W. Grady, Thomas P. Hackett, New Haven, Conn., for plaintiff.

Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, I. K. Hay, Associate Gen. Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., W. Arthur Garrity, Jr., U. S. Atty., James Noonan, Asst. U. S. Atty., John H. D. Wigger, Lee Loevinger, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

Walter J. Myskowski, LaRoe, Winn & Moerman, Washington, D. C., Richard J. Ferriter, Charles M. Ewing, Boston, Mass., Morris Duane, Duane, Morris & Heckscher, Philadelphia, Pa., Bruce A. Wallace, Camden, N. J., Francis W. Sullivan, Philadelphia, Pa., Warren Price, Jr., Washington, D. C., Theodore Chase, Palmer, Dodge, Gardner & Bradford, Boston, Mass., Jervis Langdon, Jr., Baltimore, Md., Charles R. Seal, Norfolk, Va., Charles E. Holly, Boston, Mass., David Berger, Lewis Kates, Philadelphia, Pa., Herbert B. Erhmann, Raya S. Dreben, Boston, Mass., William L. Marbury, Baltimore, Md., Donald Macleay, Washington, D. C., J. Cookman Boyd, Jr., Karl J. Grimm, Baltimore, Md., A. M. Knowles, Scott W. Scully, Portland, Me., Arthur L. Winn, Jr., Samuel H. Moerman, James M. Henderson, Washington, D. C., Charles W. Merritt, New York City, Richard R. Bongartz, Philadelphia, Pa., John F. Reilly, Richard E. Costello, New York City, J. W. G. MacDougall, Montreal, Canada, John H. Colgren, New York City, Raymond W. Troy, Lum, Biunno & Tompkins, Newark, N. J., Louis J. Lefkowitz, Paxton Blair, Dunton F. Tynan, J. Bruce MacDonald, Albany, N. Y., Sidney Goldstein, F. A. Mulhern, Leo A. Larkin, Charles H. Tenney, Samuel Mandell, Sidney Brandes, New York City, John H. Lewin, Baltimore, Md., William C. Burt, Robert M. Beckman, Koteen & Burt, Washington, D. C., John W. Hanifin, Richmond, Va., Robert B. Claytor, Roanoke, Va., Martin A. Meyer, Jr., Washington, D. C., William P. Quinn, Philadelphia, Pa., William C. Purnell, John Martin Jones, Jr., Charles J. Henry, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for intervenors.

Before WOODBURY, Circuit Judge, and SWEENEY and FORD, District Judges.


SWEENEY, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs — Boston and Maine Railroad and The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company—brought this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1336, 2284, 2321 and 2325, to set aside and enjoin enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Investigation and Suspension Docket No. 6615, Equalization of Rates at North Atlantic Ports, 311 I.C.C. 689, denying a fourth-section application and cancelling new...

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