LESTER C. NEWTON TRUCKING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 2406.

209 F.Supp. 600 (1962)

LESTER C. NEWTON TRUCKING COMPANY, a corporation, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Delaware.

September 19, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. James Conaway, Jr., and Samuel R. Russell, Morford, Young & Conaway, Wilmington, Del., H. Charles Ephraim, Washington, D. C., and William J. Augello, Jr., New York City, for plaintiffs.

Alexander Greenfeld, U. S. Atty., and Stanley C. Lowicki, Asst. U. S. Atty., Wilmington, Del., for defendant United States of America.

Fritz R. Kahn, Washington, D. C., for defendant Interstate Commerce Commission.

Joseph H. Geoghegan, Berl, Potter & Anderson, Wilmington, Del., R. Edwin Brady, Harry J. Breithaupt, Jr., Washington, D. C., T. Randolph Buck, Richmond, Va., James G. Lane, Boston, Mass., James W. Nisbet and Ed White, Chicago, Ill., Carl Helmetag, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., and J. Edgar McDonald, New York City, for intervening railroad and trucking defendants.

BIGGS, Circuit Judge, LAYTON, District Judge, and RODNEY, Senior District Judge.


RODNEY, Senior District Judge.

This is an action pending before a Three Judge Court convened pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 2281-2284 and 2321-2325. The case seeks injunctive relief restraining the enforcement, operation or execution of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission and calls for an interpretation of a provision of the Interstate Commerce Act,1 as amended by Section 7 of the Transportation Act of 1958.

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