Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Maine Potato Growers & Shippers Ass'n v. Interstate Commerce Commission
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 4, 1937No. 6690PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGroner, J.
This is a mandamus proceeding. The appellants are an association of Maine potato growers and shippers and two of their distributors, one located at Norfolk and the other at Savannah. Respondent Bangor & Aroostook is a short line railroad extending from the northern part of Maine to Searsport on the Maine coast and to Northern Maine Junction in the interior, where it connects with the Maine Central Railroad. It is essentially a potato road just as the Virginian Railway is a coal road. Aroostook county, through which the railroad extends, produces practically 40 per cent, of the total potato…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Interstate Commerce Commission v. United States Ex Rel. CampbellSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
- United States Ex Rel. Louisville Cement Co. v. Interstate Commerce CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Interstate Commerce Commission v. United States Ex Rel. Humboldt Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Interstate Commerce Commission v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
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3Cited by18 opinions
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- State v. Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1950
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