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FIELD CONTAINER CORP. v. I.C.C.

No. 82-1656.

712 F.2d 250 (1983)

FIELD CONTAINER CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents. Chicago and Northwestern Transportation Company, Intervening-Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 28, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abraham A. Diamond, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Laurence H. Schecker, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D.C., for respondents.

Before PELL and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Field Container Corporation, a shipper, complained to the Interstate Commerce Commission that the C & NW railroad had unreasonably assessed some $19,000 in demurrage against it. The Commission dismissed the complaint and ordered Field to pay the assessment, and Field has petitioned us to set aside the Commission's decision. "Demurrage" in railroad parlance is the charge for a shipper's holding the railroad's cars for loading or unloading...

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