Procter & Gamble Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
■APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES COMMERCE COURT. The facts, which involve the construction of the statute creating the Commerce Court and the determination of extent of jurisdiction of that court, are stated in the' opinion. argued simultaneously herewith. See p. 302, post.. ' The Commerce Court was given no jurisdiction to set aside the order of the Commission which merely refused relief and dismissed the petition.
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■APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES COMMERCE COURT. The facts, which involve the construction of the statute creating the Commerce Court and the determination of extent of jurisdiction of that court, are stated in the' opinion. argued simultaneously herewith. See p. 302, post.. ' The Commerce Court was given no jurisdiction to set aside the order of the Commission which merely refused relief and dismissed the petition. The Commerce Court ■>is given no jurisdiction not heretofore possessed by the Circuit"Courts; and there is no precedent in the common law for a suit in equity to establish á future…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
Having three manufacturing plants, one at Ivorydale, Ohio, a second at Port Ivory, New York, and a third at Kansas City, Kansas, in which they carried on the business of refining cottonseed and other oils and of manufacturing soap and other products from grease and oil, the Procter & Gamble Company, to facilitate the transportation to their factories of 'the substances required for their operation and of shipping out the finished products, became the owner of about five hundred railroad tank cars. The cars were exclusively devoted to the business of the company in the following manner: On the…
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