Legal Opinion
Benton v. United States
District Court, M.D. Georgia
Decided August 24, 1953No. Civ. 1028PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CONGER, District Judge.
The plaintiffs in this case are stockholders of the Southwestern Railroad Company. The defendants are the Interstate Commerce Commission and the United States of America. The plaintiffs are relatively few in number and possess a comparatively small amount of stock. As a matter of fact, the statement was made, in the argument, and uncontroverted, as far as I recall, that the plaintiffs consist of only eight of the more than five hundred shareholders, and own less than two (2%,) per cent of the capital stock. By this Statement, there is no intention to infer, or even…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Rochester Telephone Corp. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1942
- United States v. Pierce Auto Freight Lines, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Virginian Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
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3Cited by5 opinions
- W. H. B. Simpson v. South Western Railroad Company and Central of Georgia Railway CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1956
- Walker v. United StatesDistrict Court, W.D. Texas · 1962
- Breswick & Co. v. BriggsDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1955
- Simpson v. South Western RailroadDistrict Court, M.D. Georgia · 1955
- Walker v. United StatesDistrict Court, W.D. Texas · 1962