FEDERAL COMPRESS & WAREHOUSE CO. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 69-305.

319 F.Supp. 917 (1970)

FEDERAL COMPRESS & WAREHOUSE COMPANY et al., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America et al., Defendant.

United States District Court, W. D. Tennessee, W. D.

November 24, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie A. Nicholson, Memphis, Tenn., Charles B. Myers, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff Fed. Compress & Warehouse.

Roane Waring, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., R. H. Stahlheber, St. Louis, Mo., for Missouri-Pacific R. R. Co.

Richard W. McLaren, Asst. Atty. Gen., John H. D. Wigger, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Thomas F. Turley, Jr., U. S. Atty., Memphis, Tenn., for defendant United States.

Fritz R. Kahn, Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., James F. Tao, Atty., Interstate Commerce Comm., Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.

James M. Manire, Memphis, Tenn., W. W. Blackledge, Lubbock, Tex., for Cotton Plains Asso.

Martin Cassell, Chicago, Ill., Lovick P. Miles, Memphis, Tenn., for Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co.

Richard J. Schreiber, Chicago, Ill., James M. Manire, Memphis, Tenn., for Fort Worth & Denver Railway Co.

John E. McCullough, W. Bruce Kopper, St. Louis, Mo., F. J. Steinbrecher, Chicago, Ill., James M. Manire, Memphis, Tenn., for St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. and The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Circuit Judge, BROWN, Chief District Judge, and McRAE, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

This case is before the court for a judicial review of the Report and Order of the Interstate Commerce Commission issued after an en banc hearing. Allowances for Trucking Bales Cotton, Ark., Okla., Texas, 329 ICC 786 (1967). The proceedings and investigation before the ICC concerned the freight allowances made by rail carriers to shippers of baled cotton.

Section 15(13) of the Interstate Commerce Act permits a carrier to make allowances

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