NEW ENGLAND MOTOR RATE BUREAU, INC. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 65-307-C.

254 F.Supp. 633 (1966)

NEW ENGLAND MOTOR RATE BUREAU, INC. et al., Plaintiffs, v. The UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

May 31, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Arthur Garrity, Jr., U. S. Atty., John Paul Sullivan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Boston, Mass., Attys. for deft., United States of America.

Robert W. Ginnane, Gen., Counsel, Leonard S. Goodman, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Bryce Rea, Jr., Burton Fuller, Washington, D. C., for New England Motor Rate Bureau, Inc., National Motor Freight Traffic Association, Middle Atlantic Conference, Ohio Motor Freight Tariff Committee, Inc., and Pacific Inland Tariff Bureau, Inc.

Peter T. Beardsley, Richard R. Sigmon, Washington, D. C., for American Trucking Associations, Inc.

Roland Rice, John S. Fessenden, Washington, D. C., for Regular Common Carrier Conference.

John S. Fessenden, Washington, D. C., for Southwestern Motor Freight Bureau, Inc.

Homer S. Carpenter, Washington, D. C., for Eastern Central Motor Carriers Association, Inc.

LeGrand A. Carlston, Z. L. Pearson, Jr., Denver, Colo., for Rocky Mountain Motor Tariff Bureau, Inc.

J. D. Lawson, George D. Michalson, Kansas City, Mo., for Middlewest Motor Freight Bureau.

Guy H. Postell, Frank D. Hall, Atlanta, Ga., for Central and Southern Motor Freight Tariff Association, Inc., and Southern Motor Carriers Rate Conference.

John W. McFadden, Chicago, Ill., for Central States Motor Freight Bureau, Inc.

Kenneth B. Williams, Boston, Mass., of counsel.

Robert G. Bleakney, Jr., Sullivan & Worcester, Boston, Mass., William Q. Keenan and J. D. Harris, New York City, of counsel, for Railway Express Agency and Drug and Toilet Preparation Traffic Conference, The National Small Shipments Traffic Conference, Inc., and Eastern Industrial Traffic League, Inc.

Charles Ewing, Boston, Mass., for Acme Fast Freight, Inc., International Forwarding Co., Lone Star Package Car Co., Merchants Shippers, National Carloading Corp., Pacific and Atlantic Shippers, Inc., Republic Carloading & Distributing Co., Inc., Springmeier Shipping Co., Inc., Star System, Inc., Texas Freight Co., Inc., Universal Carloading & Distributing Co., Inc., Western Carloading Co., Inc., Westland Forwarding Co., and Yellow Forwarding Co.

Before ALDRICH, Circuit Judge, and GIGNOUX and CAFFREY, District Judges.


OPINION

ALDRICH, Circuit Judge.

This is an action to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission approving a rate schedule filed by Railway Express Agency, REA, for container traffic, so-called, between thirty-five stated cities in the United States. The rate was approved by the full Commission. Freight, All Kinds, L.C.L. Container Charges,—U.S.A., 1964, 323 I.C. C. 468.1 The plaintiffs, original and by by...

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