CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 64 C 2014.

242 F.Supp. 414 (1965)

CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD COMPANY, Great Northern Railway Company, Northern Pacific Railway Company, Soo Line Railroad Company, Union Pacific Railroad Company, and Norfolk and Western Railway Company, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants.

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

May 24, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Bishop, J. A. Gillen, Chicago, Ill., L. E. Torinus, Jr., St. Paul, Minn., Curtis H. Berg, St. Paul, Minn., Charles H. Clay, Minneapolis, Minn., Robert H. Duesenberg, St. Louis, Mo., Frank S. Farrell, St. Paul, Minn., W. P. Higgins, Omaha, Neb., Bishop, Burdett, Falasz & Ericson, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Nicholas Katzenbach, Acting U. S. Atty. Gen., William H. Orrick, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., John H. D. Wigger, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Edward V. Hanrahan, U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for defendant United States.

Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, I. K. Hay, Acting Gen. Counsel, Fritz R. Kahn, Leonard S. Goodman, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., for defendant Interstate Commerce Commission.

Paul M. Sand, First Asst. Atty. Gen., of North Dakota, Bismarck, N. D., Richard P. Runke, Chicago, Ill., for intervening plaintiffs Public Service Commission of North Dakota, North Dakota Mill and Elevator Assn., and the Grand Forks Chamber of Commerce, Grand Forks, North Dakota. Helgi Johanneson, Atty. Gen., of North Dakota, Bismarck, N. D., Thomas P. McElroy, Jr., Grand Forks, N. D., of counsel.

Charles W. Bucy, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Joseph E. Quin and Karl C. Grannan, Attys., Office of the Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., for intervening defendant, Orville L. Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture of the United States.

J. S. Chartrand, Kansas City, Mo., for intervening defendant Board of Trade of Kansas City, Mo.

Joseph J. Nagle, Chicago, Ill., for intervening defendant Chicago, M. St. P. & P. R. Co.

Cyril J. Burrill, Omaha, Neb., for intervening defendant Omaha Grain Exchange.

Jordan Jay Hillman, Gen. Counsel and John C. Danielson, Gen. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for intervening defendant Chicago & N. W. R. Co.

Bryce L. Hamilton, Edmund J. Kenny, Winston, Strawn, Smith & Patterson, Chicago, Ill., for intervening defendant Chicago G. W. R. Co.

Daniel J. Sweeney, Richard M. Freeman, Belnap, Spencer, Hardy & Freeman, Chicago, Ill., for intervening defendants Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., General Mills, Inc., and The Pillsbury Co.

Before CASTLE, Circuit Judge, and PERRY and AUSTIN, District Judges.


PERRY, District Judge.

Plaintiff railroads in this action under Sections 1336, 1398, 2284 and 2321 through 2325, inclusive, of Title 28, United States Code, seek to suspend, enjoin, annul and set aside the Interstate Commerce Commission's order of June 5, 1964, entered in proceedings designated before the Commission as Docket No. 17000, Rate Structure Investigation, Part VII, Grain and Grain Products Within the Western District and For Export, in so far as that order...

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