Legal Opinion
Kansas City Terminal Railway Company, Interstate Commerce Commission, Intervening v. Jordon Manufacturing Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 14, 1984No. 83-1448, 83-1530PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The Kansas City Terminal Railway brought suit against the Jordon Manufacturing Company to recover an amount less than $10,000 in freight charges due the railroad under the tariffs applicable to the shipments in question. The railroad based federal jurisdiction on 28 U.S.C. § 1337(a). The district court dismissed the suit for want of federal subject-matter jurisdiction, 557 F.Supp. 377 (C.D.Ill.1983), and the railroad (joined by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which had intervened in the district court) appeals.
The district judge had alternative grounds for dismissing…
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