Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. St. Joe Paper Company

Even casual consideration of the past proceedings and rulings1 in this matter will reveal grounds for substantial argument as to what is, as often denominated, “the law of the case”. However, it would be unusual, to say the least, to attribute to the Supreme Court an intention to abandon determination of the important, if indeed not the controlling, question which had underlain the prior decisions of the trial and the Appellate Courts, and to which alone the Supreme Court had restricted itself upon the grant of certiorari. With much more logic and respect might it be assumed that the court…