Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OP TENNESSEE. The facts, which involve the validity of orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission establishing rates on coal and also requiring the carrier to furnish certain switching facilities to connecting carriers, are stated in the opinion.
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APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OP TENNESSEE. The facts, which involve the validity of orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission establishing rates on coal and also requiring the carrier to furnish certain switching facilities to connecting carriers, are stated in the opinion. If the facts found do not as a matter of law support the orders made, or if the Commission was without jurisdiction to make the orders, or if the orders result in taking appellants’ property without due process of law, the interlocutory injunction should have been granted.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lamar
The Traffic Bureau of Nashville instituted proceedings before the Commerce Commission against the Louisville & Nashville, Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, Tennessee Central, Illinois Central R, R. Companies, and the Nashville Terminal Company, seeking (1) a reduction of the $1 rate on coal and (2) to require a discontinuance of what was alleged to be a discriminatory switching practice in the yard at Nashville. After an elaborate hearing, in which volumes of testimony were taken, the Commission found that the $Lcoal rate was unreasonable, and established an 80 cent rate. . It also passed…
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