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AKERS MOTOR LINES, INC., v. UNITED STATES

Civ. Nos. 2927, C-C-72-21.

352 F.Supp. 606 (1973)

AKERS MOTOR LINES, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, and McLean Trucking Company, Intervening Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants, and Malone Freight Lines, Inc., Intervening Defendant. AKERS MOTOR LINES, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants, and Malone Freight Lines, Inc., Intervening Defendant.

United States District Court, W. D. North Carolina, Charlotte Division.

Decided January 2, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Ephraim and J. Raymond Clark, Ephraim & Clark, Washington, D. C., Donald E. Cross and Thomas M. Knebel, Rea, Cross & Knebel, Washington, D. C., Charles T. Myers and George C. Collie, Myers & Collie, Charlotte, N. C., and Francis W. McInerny, MacDonald & McInerny, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Thomas E. Kauper, Asst. Atty. Gen., John H. D. Wigger, Atty., U. S. Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Keith S. Snyder, U. S. Atty., Charlotte, N. C., for United States of America, defendant.

Fritz R. Kahn, General Counsel, and Hanford O'Hara, Atty., Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Francis O. Clarkson, Jr., Craighill, Rendleman & Clarkson, Charlotte, N. C., Maurice F. Bishop, Bishop & Carlton, Birmingham, Ala., and Harold P. Boss, Rhodes, Simms & Boss, Washington, D. C., for Malone Freight Lines, Inc., intervening defendant.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge, JONES, Chief District Judge, and McMILLAN, District Judge.

McMILLAN, District Judge:

Plaintiffs in these suits, competing truckers, request the court to annul and set aside orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission (113 MCC 442, June 10, 1971) granting a certificate of public convenience and necessity for irregular-route authority to Malone Freight Lines, Inc., of Birmingham, Alabama, to haul general commodities (with customary exceptions) on a through-route or "cross-haul" basis, through a "gateway" at Elkin and Statesville...

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