Legal Opinion

Southern Ry. Co. v. United States (Interstate Commerce Commission)

Commerce Court

Decided December 5, 1911No. 44PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Petition by the Southern Railway Company and others against the United States, respondent, and the Interstate Commerce Commission, intervening respondent. On motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction.

1Opinion of the Court

HUNT, Judge.

The only question now before us pertains to the jurisdiction of the Commerce Court.

The petition was filed by the Southern Railway Company and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, asking in effect that two certain orders of reparation in favor of the St. Rouis Blast Furnace Company made by the Interstate Commerce Commission be annulled and that pending suit the enforcement of each of said orders be enjoined.

The Commission intervened in this court and joins with the United States in a motion to dismiss the petition because each of the orders made by the Commission and referred to…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Procter & Gamble Co. v. United StatesCommerce Court · 1911

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Atlantic Coast Line R.Supreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Arkansas Fertilizer Co. v. United States (Interstate Commerce Commission)Commerce Court · 1911

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