American Trucking Ass'ns, Inc. v. United States

GRONER, J.:

For more than 50 years some of the railroads in certain sections of the country were engaged in what is known as pick-up and delivery service in connection with the transportation by rail of merchandise traffic. The service, however, was neither continuous nor universal, but in those instances in which it existed, the Interstate Commerce Commission had uniformly held that it had jurisdiction to regulate it as part of the- transportation service by railroad. In 1932 the New England lines, with the exception of the New Haven and the Boston & Albany, established a regular pick-up and…