Lynchburg Traffic Bureau v. United States

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Freight rates on bituminous fine coal from mines in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia to Lynchburg, Virginia prescribed by the defendant ten railroads, the Lynchburg Traffic Bureau charged before the Interstate Commerce Commission, violated sections 1(5), 1(6), 2, 3(1) and 4 of the Interstate Commerce Act, 49 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., as unjust and unreasonable, discriminatory, prejudicial to Lynchburg and unduly preferential to Danville, Virginia, 64 miles apart. The complaint, filed July 21,1961, sought to set aside the existing rates and to establish “lawful”…