United States v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES COMMERCE COURT. The facts, which involve the legality of an order made by the Interstate Commerce Commission regarding certain allowances made by railroad carriers to shippers and determination of whether such allowances constituted illegal preferences or discriminations in violation of the Act to Regulate Commerce, are stated in the opinion. . The Commission correctly treated as one and the same concern the firm of Arbuckle Brothers and' the…
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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES COMMERCE COURT. The facts, which involve the legality of an order made by the Interstate Commerce Commission regarding certain allowances made by railroad carriers to shippers and determination of whether such allowances constituted illegal preferences or discriminations in violation of the Act to Regulate Commerce, are stated in the opinion. . The Commission correctly treated as one and the same concern the firm of Arbuckle Brothers and' the firm styled Jay Street Terminal. The fact that a large part of Arbuckle Brothers’ sugar is sold f. o. b. Brooklyn is a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lurton
This appeal involves the legality of an order made by the Interstate Commerce Commission holding that certain allowances made by the appellees to Arbuckle Brothers on sugar shipped by them over one or another of the railroad companies’ lines constitute an illegal preference or discrimination in violation of the Act to Regulate Commerce. The order of the Commission required the railroad companies to cease and desist from paying such allowances, “while at the same time paying no such allowances to the Federal Sugar Refining Co.,” on its sugar brought by it on lighters to the carriers at the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Interstate Commerce Commission v. DiffenbaughSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Wight v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Penn Refining Co. v. Western New York & Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- United States v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
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- Oliver Bros. v. Federal Trade CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1939
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