FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

No. 65-12-CIV.-J.

242 F.Supp. 490 (1965)

FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY COMPANY, Plaintiff, and Southern Railway Company et al., Intervening Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants, and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, A. Duda & Sons, Inc., and A. Duda & Sons Cooperative Association, Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Florida,

May 19, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred H. Kent, of Ulmer, Murchison, Kent, Ashby & Ball, Jacksonville, Fla., A. Alvis Layne and William A. Chesnutt, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff Florida East Coast Railway Co.

W. Graham Claytor, Jr., James A. Bistline, Peter S. Craig, Washington, D. C., H. P. Osborne, Jr., John M. McNatt, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla., for intervening plaintiffs Southern Railway Co., Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co., Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co., New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad Co., Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Co., and Carolina & Northwestern Railway Co.

Edward F. Boardman, U. S. Atty., William J. Hamilton, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., William H. Orrick, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., John H. D. Wigger, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant United States.

Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, Fritz R. Kahn, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Raymond M. Zimmet, Atty., I. C. C., Washington, D. C., for I. C. C.

Prime F. Osborn, Phil C. Beverly, Charles B. Evans, Jacksonville, Fla., for intervening defendant Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.

William H. Maness, Kurz, Toole, Maness & Martin, Jacksonville, Fla., for intervening defendant A. Duda & Sons, Inc. and A. Duda & Sons Cooperative Association.

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


PER CURIAM:

The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company (A C L) applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct, in Palm Beach County, Florida, an extension of an existing rail line, now terminating at the Okeelanta sugar mill, a distance of 6.5 miles east, and from this point it was proposed that one branch would run north 2.5 miles to the site of a packing house and precooling plant which A. Duda &...

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