COBB v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 68-467.

297 F.Supp. 169 (1969)

W. J. and Irene COBB, Cook's Agway Service and Cooperative Legislative Committee — Railroad Brotherhoods in the State of Pennsylvania, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Interstate Commerce Commission, and Erie-Lackawanna Railway Company, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Pennsylvania.

March 13, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Barrett, Nogi, O'Malley & Harris, Scranton, Pa., Thomas P. Shearer, Pittsburgh, Pa., Gordon P. MacDougall, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Bernard J. Brown, U. S. Atty., Scranton, Pa., Jerome Nelson, Interstate Commerce Commission, Wahington, D. C., Wallace R. Steffen, Cleveland, Ohio, Warren, Hill, Henkelman & McMenamin, Scranton, Pa., for defendants.

Before KALODNER, Circuit Judge, and SHERIDAN and NEALON, District Judges.


ORDER OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM.

This is a suit pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2284 and § 2325 seeking to vacate and set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission which authorized the Erie-Lackawanna Railway Company to abandon 19.8 miles of branch lines between the areas of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, and Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania.1 A statutory Three Judge Court was duly constituted and a hearing was held on February 28...

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