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THOMSON PHOSPHATE CO. v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO.

Nos. 148-149, Dockets 34582, 35010.

434 F.2d 180 (1970)

THOMSON PHOSPHATE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellants. ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. R. CO. et al., Cross-Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Cross-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 24, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Edgar McDonald, New York City, for defendants-appellants and cross-plaintiffs-appellants, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., and others.

Harry Teichner, Brooklyn, N. Y., for plaintiff-appellee, Thomson Phosphate Co.

Jerome Sharfman, Atty., I. C. C., Washington, D. C. (Leonard S. Goodman, Associate Gen. Counsel, Robert W. Ginnane and Nahum Litt, Attys., and Fritz R. Kahn, Gen. Counsel, I. C. C., Washington, D. C., of counsel), for cross-defendant-appellee, I. C. C.

United States Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., by William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty. Gen., Morton Hollander and Patricia S. Baptiste, Washington, D. C., Attys., and Whitney North Seymour, Jr., U. S. Atty., S. D. N. Y., and Michael D. Hess, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, for cross-defendant-appellee, the United States.

Before MOORE, FRIENDLY and ADAMS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

For more than twenty-four years — using a procedure designed to expedite claims — the shipper and carrier in this action have been disputing the proper rate to be applied to ground phosphate rock shipped by rail from Florida to Illinois during the 1940's.

The issue on this appeal is whether a reparation order by the Interstate Commerce Commission ("Commission") resolving this matter should be set aside, or whether the action brought...

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