Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Co. v. Erie Ry. Co.

The plaintiff brought its action to prevent what it alleges to be a discrimination against it by the defendant, The Erie Railroad Company, *290in the handling ol freight at Cleveland. This discrimination is alleged to result by depriving it of the use of certain machinery for the rapid transfer of coal from cars to boats which is granted by the railroad company to the defendant, The Pittsburgh Coal Company.

It is made manifest'by the evidence, that the use of such machinery is indispensable to the successful prosecution of the business in which both of these companies are engaged.

The case of the…