Interstate Commerce Commission v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT'OF OHIO. The court stated the case as follows: This proceeding was originally instituted by the filing of a petition before the Interstate Commerce Commission by the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway Company against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, to compel the latter to withdraw from its lines of road, upon which business competitive with that of the petitioner was transacted,…
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT'OF OHIO. The court stated the case as follows: This proceeding was originally instituted by the filing of a petition before the Interstate Commerce Commission by the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway Company against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, to compel the latter to withdraw from its lines of road, upon which business competitive with that of the petitioner was transacted, the so-called “ party-rates,” and to decline to give such rates in future upon such lines of road; also for an order…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
Prior to the enactment of ’-the act of February 4, 1887, to regulate commerce, commonly known as the Interstate Commerce Act, 24 Stat. 379, c. 104, railway'traffic in this country was regulated by the principles of the common law applicable to common carriers, which demanded little more than that they should carry for all persons who applied, in the order in which the goods were delivered at the particular, station, and that their charges for transportation should be reasonable. It was even doubted whether they were bound to make the same charge to all persons for the same service; Fitchburg…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- McDonald v. HoveySupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Johnson v. Pensacola & Perdido RailroadSupreme Court of Florida · 1878
- Gibbes v. Greenville & Columbia RailroadSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1882
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- Arizona Grocery Co. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Interstate Commerce CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1897
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