CHICAGO & E. I. R. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 275.

375 U.S. 150 (1963)

CHICAGO & EASTERN ILLINOIS RAILROAD CO. ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 2, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Freeman and F. F. Vesper for appellants.

Solicitor General Cox, Assistant Attorney General Orrick, Lionel Kestenbaum, Elliott H. Moyer, Robert W. Ginnane and Stanton P. Sender for the United States and the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Richard J. Murphy, John W. Hanifin and Robert H. Bierma for rail carrier appellees.


PER CURIAM.

The motion to add the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company et al., as parties appellee, is granted. The motions to affirm are granted and the judgment is affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK, with whom MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS concurs, dissenting.

In the Transportation Act of 1940 Congress amended the Interstate Commerce Act to authorize the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate rates of interstate water carriers as well as of railroads and motor...

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