Legal Opinion
Powell v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 1, 1937No. 295PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Butler
In proceedings initiated on complaint of the receiver of the Central of Georgia Railway Company, the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered to be “stricken from the files” a tariff filed by the receivers of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company. The tariff extended Fort Benning Junction switching limits to include, receiving and delivery tracks at Fort Benning military post. It was stricken on the ground that it extended to a station and covered transportation not on the line of the Seaboard in violation of § 6 (1) of the Interstate Commerce Act. 1 206 I. C. C. 362. To annul that order the…
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