Board of Trade of Kansas City v. United States

We have before us on this appeal orders embodying a series of determinations made by the Interstate Commerce Commission after inquiries into the grain rate structure stretching over a period of twelve years. The plaintiffs are millers, elevator companies, boards of trade, grain exchanges, and other business interests in Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha, St. Joseph, Atchison, Leavenworth, and Minneapolis, the great grain centers known in the trade as “primary markets.” The Commission’s orders, they complain, create an unlawful discrimination under the Interstate Commerce Act, §§ 1 (5), 2, 3…