Louisville & N. R. v. United States

(orally). The court has considered the propositions which you gentlemen were discussing, and we are of the opinion that the statute contemplates that the Interstate Commerce Commission shall not only have power to determine as to whether any given rate is reasonable, but shall also have the power to determine as to whether any given rate is confiscatory, and that in a case like the one at bar, if the railroad, the complainant here, is dissatisfied as to the decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission, that it is its duty under the statute (section 16a) to apply to the Commission for a…