Interstate Commerce Commission v. Goodrich Transit Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS PROM THE UNITED STATES COMMERCE COURT. The facts, which involve the constitutionality and construction of the provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act in regard to accounts to be kept by carriers partly by land and partly by water, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
The appellees in these four cases are corporations organized under state laws and engaged in the carriage of passengers and freight by water upon the Great Lakes. They filed bills in the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois to enjoin the enforcement of certain orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The cases were afterwards transferred to the United States Commerce Court.
The orders of the Commission complained of comprise: First, an order prescribing the method of accounts and bookkeeping ás to the operating expenses of the carriers and a similar order as…
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