Legal Opinion

Baker v. Riss & Co.

District Court, W.D. Missouri

Decided August 20, 1971No. Civ. A. No. 17729-3Published

1Opinion of the Court

*21JUDGMENT DISMISSING COMPLAINT FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION

WILLIAM H. BECKER, Chief Judge.

This is an action, according to the allegations of the complaint herein, under the provisions of Section 1337, Title 28, United States Code, by the plaintiff railroad (on appeal, the trustees were substituted as parties plaintiff) to collect “storage and detention charges in the amount of One Thousand Eight Hundred Forty-Eight Dollars” allegedly incurred by defendant “[o]n various dates between on or about September 15, 1966, to and including February 1, 1969.” In the complaint in this case, plaintiff alleged…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. United States v. Western Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
  2. American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1967
  3. George P. Baker v. Riss & Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1971
  4. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. United StatesDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1969

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