Legal Opinion
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company v. The Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided October 1, 1974No. 73-1017PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILKEY, Circuit Judge:
This case concerns intricacies of the Interstate Commerce Act and the relationship of the Act to the common law and judicial equitable discretion. The precise question is whether this court should order a retroactive readjustment of divisions of agreed joint rates. We agree, although for somewhat different reasons, with the District Judge that this question should be answered in the negative.
I. THE NORTH-SOUTH DISPUTE
At issue in this case is the proper division of joint rates on freight shipped between North1 and South. When freight is shipped between the two regions, a…
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