Wichita Board of Trade v. United States

BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

This controversy over railroad freight rates on grain has followed a tortuous and unusual path through a maze of administrative and judicial proceedings. Any simple statement of the facts, issues, and procedures is impossible. The appeal by the railroads attacks a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas which held that the rates imposed were unlawful and ordered the railroads to file an accounting of the moneys collected during a stay period and pay the amounts wrongfully collected into the registry of the court. The United States…