Steel, Inc. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

OPINION

ARTHUR J. STANLEY, Jr., Chief Judge.

This action, brought by forty plaintiffs against numerous defendants, is one to enforce an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission (323 I.C.C. 509) requiring the defendants to make reparation to plaintiffs for excessive freight charges on a number of shipments of steel products. Jurisdiction is conferred upon this court by the provisions of 49 U.S.C.A. § 16(2). The case is now before the court upon motion of the defendants to require a representative of each plaintiff to be present at trial for purposes of giving testimony, under penalty of…