Central Vermont Railway, Inc. v. United States

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge.

Ninety-one railroads1 join in this action to enjoin and annul certain orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission,2 entered pursuant to a decision of the full Commission reported at 303 ICC 743 (May 7, 1958). A single question is presented to this court: Does the Commission have jurisdiction over the foreign factor of a combination international rate when the foreign factor is a proportional rate from the points of origin to a border interchange within the United States?

*518The rates in question pertain to the carriage of asbestos, a transportation originating in the…