PACIFIC FRUIT EXP. CO. v. AKRON, CANTON & YOUNGSTOWN R. CO.

No. 44601.

355 F.Supp. 700 (1973)

PACIFIC FRUIT EXPRESS COMPANY, a corporation, Plaintiff, v. AKRON, CANTON & YOUNGSTOWN RAILROAD COMPANY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

March 2, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert A. Waterman, Charles W. Burkett, Michael A. Smith, San Francisco, Cal., and Byron D. Strattan, Howard E. Roos, Omaha, Neb., for plaintiff Pacific Fruit Express Co., a corporation.

Bernard A. Gould, Daniel M. O'Donoghue, Daniel S. Linhardt, Bureau of Enforcement, I. C. C., Washington, D. C., for intervening plaintiff I. C. C.

James L. Browning, Jr., U. S. Atty., William B. Spohn, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for U. S. realigned as plaintiff.

Gordon Johnson, Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Akron, Canton & Youngstown R. Co., etc.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

SWEIGERT, District Judge.

This is a civil action for damages brought by Pacific Fruit Express (PFE) seeking to recover from 90 mideastern, eastern and southern railroad common carriers, an amount alleged to be in excess of 12.5 million dollars, representing compensation claimed to be due PFE for the use by defendant railroads of plaintiffs' mechanical protective services supplied them through PFE refrigeration cars moving over the...

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