Utah Poultry & Farmers Cooperative v. United States

The Utah Poultry & Farmers Cooperative, a Utah corporation, brought this suit against the Interstate Commerce Commission and the United States to set aside and annul an order of the Commission which approved as reasonable a five per cent, damage tolerance on eggs shipped by railroads and not processed at the rail point of origin, and a three per cent, tolerance on eggs processed at the rail point of origin, 284 I.C.C. 377, and to enjoin its enforcement. The Secretary of Agriculture of the United States filed a motion to intervene as a party plaintiff. The United States was a statutory…