Louisville & N. R. v. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was an action brought (as authorized by'section 16 of the Act to Regulate Commerce [Comp. St. § 8584]) by Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company, a corporation (herein called plaintiff), and two other corporations, against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company (herein called defendant), a common carrier engaged in interstate commerce, and several other such carriers, to recover the amount of reparations awarded by the Interstate Commerce Commission (herein called the Commission), by an 'order made July 12, 1921, in favor of the plaintiffs in that suit severally…