CITY OF GALVESTON v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 65-H-594.

257 F.Supp. 243 (1966)

CITY OF GALVESTON et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

August 11, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McLeod, Alexander, Powell & Apffel, V. W. McLeod, Galveston, Tex., and Belnap, Spencer, Hardy & Freeman, Harold E. Spencer, Chicago, Ill., for City of Galveston and others.

Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, E. V. Greenwood, Houston, Tex., and Belnap, Spencer, Hardy & Freeman, Harold E. Spencer, Chicago, Ill., for Houston Port Bureau, Inc., and others.

Frank A. Leffingwell, Dallas, Tex., for Nueces County Navigation Dist. No. 1.

W. A. Thie, Dallas, Tex., for Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Co.

Don McDevitt, Chicago, Ill., for Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. Co.

Sterling W. Steves, Fort Worth, Tex., for Fort Worth & Denver R. Co.

Milton E. Nelson, Jr., Chicago, Ill., Franklin, Kelly, Graham & Laughter, W. Kenneth Graham, Houston, Tex., for Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. Co.

Frank A. Leffingwell, Dallas, Tex., Sam Dawkins, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Gulf Compress.

Donald F. Turner, John H. D. Wigger, Washington, D. C., for United States of America.

Robert W. Ginnane, Robert S. Burk, Washington, D. C., Woodrow Seals, U. S. Atty., and J. H. Baumgarten, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Before BROWN, Circuit Judge, and HANNAY and INGRAHAM, District Judges.


INGRAHAM, District Judge:

The ports of Houston and Galveston and four of the original twenty-six defendant railroads seek to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission entered in Nueces County Navigation District No. 1 v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, et al., 325 I.C.C. 400 (1965). The order held that the export rates for cotton from specified origins in northern Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico were unduly prejudicial to the port of Corpus...

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