Purcell v. United States

A federal district court, composed of three judges in accordance with 28 U. S. C. § 47, dismissed the appellants’ bill, which prayed for the annulment of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 41 E. Supp. 309.' The order permitted the Confluence and Oakland Railroad Company, as owner, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, as lessee, to abandon a railroad line approximately 20 miles long and to discontinue service entirely in the area now served: a semi-mountainous section along the Youghiogheny River between Confluence and Oakland Junction, Pennsylvania, and Kendall, Maryland.…