Adams v. Mellon

WOODWARD, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, 103 in number, members of tbe Chicago Live Stock Exchange, bring tbis suit against Andrew Mellon, Director General of Railroads, and Union Stock Yard & Transit Company, under section 16 of tbe Act to Regulate Commerce (49 USCA § 16) to recover from tbe defendants jointly $140,001.25, with interest, awarded to plaintiffs in a reparations order entered by the Interstate Commerce Commission on December 12, 1927, which sum has not been paid.

At tbe conclusion of all tbe evidence, tbe defendants separately made motions to instruct tbe jury to return a verdict in…