ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY CO. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 64 C 1442

244 F.Supp. 955 (1965)

The ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

August 20, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amos M. Mathews, J. D. Feeney, Robert F. Munsell, Chicago, Ill., Thormund A. Miller, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Bruce E. Brown, Chicago, Ill., Francis M. Shea, William H. Dempsey, Jr., Walter J. Myskowski, W. Graham Claytor, Jr., William D. McLean, James A. Bistline, Washington, D. C., Shea & Gardner, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for Southern R. Co., et al., intervening plaintiffs.

John A. Daily, New York City, Louis T. Duerinck, Chicago, Ill., for New York Cent. R. Co., intervening plaintiff.

A. L. Foster, C. P. Callahan, Jr., Chicago, Ill., Paul R. Duke, Philadelphia, Pa., for Eastern Railroads, intervening plaintiffs.

Kenneth F. Burgess, D. Robert Thomas, Chicago, Ill., George H. Leonard, F. N. Melius, Jr., New York City, Theo. R. Schneider, St. Louis, Mo., Giles Morrow, Washington, D. C., Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for Acme Fast Freight, Inc., et al., intervening plaintiffs.

James W. Hoeland, Louisville, Ky., H. R. Begley, Chicago, Ill., for Atlanta & West Point R. Co. et al., intervening plaintiffs.

Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, U. S. Atty. Gen., William H. Orrick, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty. Gen., I. Daniel Stewart, Jr., Washington, D. C., Edward V. Hanrahan, J. B. Schmetterer, Chicago, Ill., for United States of America.

Robert W. Ginnane, Robert S. Burk, Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Clarence D. Todd, Washington, D. C., Joseph M. Scanlan, Chicago, Ill., Todd, Dillon, Sullivan & Raley, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for Contract Carrier Conference of American Trucking Ass'n, Inc., intervening defendant.

Richard R. Sigmon, Peter T. Beardsley, Harry J. Jordan, William R. Rubbert, F. G. Freund, R. Edwin Brady, Bryce Rea, Jr., Roland Rice, Homer S. Carpenter, John S. Fessenden, James E. Wilson, Washington, D. C., Guy H. Postell, Atlanta, Ga., Ferdinand Born, Indianapolis, Ind., George D. Michalson, Kansas City, Mo., Herman Matthei, Boston, Mass., Robert Gawley, Buffalo, N. Y., LeGrand A. Carlston, Denver, Colo., F. H. Lynch, Jr., Dallas, Tex., Carl L. Steiner, Axelrod, Goodman & Steiner, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for American Trucking Ass'ns, Inc., et al., intervening defendants.

Joseph M. Scanlan, Chicago, Ill., George S. Dixon, Detroit, Mich., Matheson, Dixon & Bieneman, Detroit, Mich., of counsel, for National Automobile Transporters Ass'n, intervening defendant.

Before CASTLE, Circuit Judge, and HOFFMAN and DECKER, District Judges.


JULIUS J. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

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