FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

No. 64-64-Civ. J.

242 F.Supp. 14 (1965)

FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY COMPANY, a corporation, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Florida, Jacksonville Division.

May 13, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick H. Kent, Sr., of Ulmer, Murchison, Kent, Ashby & Ball, Jacksonville, Fla., A. Alvis Layne, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff Florida East Coast Ry. Co.

Mahoney, Hadlow, Chambers & Adams, Jacksonville, Fla., Mulholland, Hickey & Lyman, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff in intervention Railway Labor Executives' Assn.

H. P. Osborne, Jr., James E. Cobb, of Mathews, Osborne & Ehrlich, Jacksonville, Fla., and William D. McLean, Washington, D. C., W. Graham Claytor, Jr., D. W. Markham, John K. Mallory, Jr., Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs in intervention Southern Railway Co., and others.

Edward F. Boardman, U. S. Atty., James H. Walsh, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., I. Daniel Stewart, Jr., Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant United States.

Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, Fritz R. Kahn, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., for defendant Interstate Commerce Commission.

Harold J. Gallagher, Walter H. Brown, Jr., New York City, John S. Cox, of Cox, Grissett & Webb, Jacksonville, Fla., Richard A. Hollander, Richmond, Va., for defendant in intervention Seaboard Air Line Railroad Co.

William H. Maness, of Kurz, Toole, Maness & Martin, Prime F Osborn, John W. Weldon, Phil C. Beverly, Jacksonville, Fla., for defendants in intervention Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. and Atlantic Coast Line Co.

William H. Maness, of Kurz, Toole, Maness & Martin, Jacksonville, Fla., Edwin H. Burgess, Baltimore, Md., for defendant in intervention Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

Before RIVES, Circuit Judge, and SIMPSON and McRAE, District Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This is an action to enjoin, annul, and set aside orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission1 which, subject to routing and gateway conditions and employee protective conditions, authorize the merger of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company into Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company and the related acquisition of control by Seaboard of carriers subsidiary to or affiliated with Atlantic Coast Line, most prominently...

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