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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 5839.

298 F.Supp. 734 (1969)

CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY, Clinchfield Railroad Co. and Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America & Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants, and Southern Railway Co., Interstate Railroad Co., Brimstone Railroad Co., Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co., Harriman & Northeastern Railroad Co., Kentucky & Tennessee Railway, & Tennessee Railway Co., Intervening Defendants by order of 3/1/68, Property Owners' Committee and Harlan Fuel Company, Intervening Defendants by order of 3-19-68.

United States District Court W. D. Kentucky, Louisville Division.

April 9, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benson T. Buck, Harry N. Babcock, John W. Hanifin, Cleveland, Ohio, for Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. Co.

Joseph L. Lenihan, James W. Hoeland, Elbert R. Leigh, Louisville, Ky., Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co. for Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co., Joseph E. Stopher, Louisville, Ky., for all plaintiffs.

Ramsey Clark, Atty. Gen., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Thurgood Marshall, Sol. Gen., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, ICC, Manny H. Smith, Atty., ICC, Washington, D. C., Ernest W. Rivers, U. S. Atty., Louisville, Ky., William M. Maddox, Washington, D. C., Homer S. Carpenter, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

Gerald Kirven, Middleton, Seelbach, Wolford, Willis & Cochran, Louisville, Ky., Richard J. Flynn and, David J. Boyd, Sidley & Austin, Washington, D. C., Henry J. Karison, Washington, D. C., for intervenor-defendants.

Before CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judge, and BROOKS and GORDON, District Judges.

MEMORANDUM OPINION, ORDER AND JUDGMENT

PER CURIAM.

This action was brought before this Three-Judge Court under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 1336, 49 U.S.C. § 17(9), and 5 U.S.C. § 706, by The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company (C&O), Clinchfield Railway Company (Clinchfield), Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company (L&N), all common carriers by railroad subject to the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission, to enjoin...

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