Ready Mix, Inc. v. Nebraska Railroads of Western Trunk Lines Committee

The Nebraska State Railway Commission authorized commodity rates for intrastate transportation of cement by motor common carrier, and protesting railroads have appealed. We review (1) sufficiency of the evidence, which was received at a trial type of hearing before an examiner, and (2) denial of a request for oral argument to the commission.

Cement has been produced and distributed at noncompetitive points. Class rates regulated intrastate transportation by motor common carrier, but they were paper rates, two and three times higher than the rates under review. In- 1965 and prior to the present…