I. C. C. v. MEMPHIS UNION STATION COMPANY

Nos. 16466-16471.

360 F.2d 44 (1966)

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, and City of Memphis, Tennessee, and Railway Labor Executives' Association, Intervenor-Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. MEMPHIS UNION STATION COMPANY, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Union Railway Company, Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company, St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, Southern Railway Company, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

March 31, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis M. Shea, Washington, D. C., for Louisville & Nashville R. Co., Southern Railway Co., Missouri Pacific Railway Co., Memphis Union Station Co. and Union Railway Co., Jesse E. Johnson, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., Joseph L. Lenihan, James W. Holland, Louisville, Ky., John B. Mack, Memphis, Tenn., on the brief, for Louisville & N. R. Co. and Illinois Cent. R. Co. and Burch, Porter & Johnson and Clifton, Mack & Kirkpatrick, Memphis, Tenn., of counsel; William D. McLean, Peter S. Craig, Washington, D. C., Harry W. Laughlin, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., on the brief, for Southern Ry. Co., and Laughlin, Watson, Creson, Garthright & Halle, Memphis, Tenn., of counsel; Mark M. Hennelly, Gilbert P. Strelinger, St. Louis, Mo., Edward P. Russell, Memphis, Tenn., on the brief, for Missouri Pac. R. Co., Canada, Russell & Turner, Memphis, Tenn., of counsel; Edward P. Russell, Memphis, Tenn., on the brief for Memphis Union Station Co., on the brief, Canada, Russell & Turner, Memphis, Tenn., of counsel.

James W. Hoeland, Louisville, Ky., for Louisville & N. R. Co., and Illinois Cent. R. Co., Jesse E. Johnson, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., Joseph L. Lenihan, Louisville, Ky., John B. Mack, Memphis, Tenn., on the brief, Burch, Porter & Johnson and Clifton, Mack & Kirkpatrick, Memphis, Tenn., of counsel.

Edward P. Russell, Memphis, Tenn., for St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co., Clyde W. Fiddes, Tyler, Tex., on the brief, Canada, Russell & Turner, Memphis, Tenn., of counsel.

Harvey Gobetz, Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission, Marcus L. Meyer, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., Thomas L. Robinson, U. S. Atty., Memphis, Tenn., on the brief.

William J. Hickey, Washington, D. C., for Railway Labor Executives' Assn., William F. Kirsch, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., James L. Highsaw, Jr., William G. Mahoney, William J. Hickey, Jr., Washington, D. C., on the brief, Heiskell, Donelson, Adams, Williams & Wall, Memphis, Tenn., Mulholland, Hickey & Lyman, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Patrick Johnson, Sr., City Atty., Memphis, Tenn., for City of Memphis, Arthur J. Shea, S. A. Wilbun, Asst. City Attys., Memphis, Tenn., on the brief.

Before EDWARDS and CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judges, and KENT, District Judge.


EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

The Interstate Commerce Commission filed these complaints in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. The complaints sought injunctions to restrain five railroads1 and the Memphis Union Station Company from abandoning operations at the Memphis Union Station without prior ICC approval of both the abandonment and the railroads' alternate arrangements.

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