Legal Opinion

Soo Line Railroad Company, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, Defendant-Appellee/cross-Appellant

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided September 8, 1997No. 96-3842 & 96-3928PublishedCited by 115 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

This case concerns a contract between the Soo Line Railroad Company (Soo) and the St. Louis Southwest Railway Company (SSW) under which SSW agreed to “interchange” railroad freight cars through its Armourdale rail yard in Kansas City, Kansas. 1 SSW also agreed to perform certain services on these cars at the Armourdale yard. This interchange agreement covered both cars entering the yard from the Soo and cars leaving the yard to the Soo.

Before cars leaving the yard could reach the Soo, however, they had to pass over tracks owned by the Kansas City Terminal (KCT). The KCT…

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