Interstate Commerce Commission v. Lehigh Val. R. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
In Equity. Motion for preliminary injunction. Petition by the interstate commerce commission to restrain the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company from exacting an alleged excessive rate for transporting coal from the mines to Elizabethport.
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In Equity. Motion for preliminary injunction. Petition by the interstate commerce commission to restrain the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company from exacting an alleged excessive rate for transporting coal from the mines to Elizabethport. Upon complaint by Coxe Pros., miners and shippers of anthracite coal, the interstate commerce commission had made an order, after hearing both parties, establishing rates for the carriage of coal from the mines to Elizabethport, lower than the rates previously charged, and declaring the latter excessive. The Le-high Valley Company continued to charge its old…
1Opinion of the Court
Acheson, Circuit Judge.
Upon the complaint of Coxe Bros. & Co. against the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company made to the interstate commerce commission, pursuant to the act of congress entitled “An act to regulate commerce,” approved February 4,1887, (24 St. at Large, p. 379,) and the amendatory acts of March 2, 1889, and February 10, 1891, (25 St. at Large, p. 855; 26 St. at Large, p. 743,) the said commission found and decided that the rates established by the said railroad company, and in force over and upon its lines of railroad for the transportation of anthracite coal from the Lehigh…
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