Harriman v. Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The facts are stated in the opinion. Congress has conferred upon the Interstate Commerce Commission authority to investigate, and in connection therewith compel the testimony of witnesses, only in aid of its duty to execute and enforce the provisions of the act to regulate commerce. The commission is a body of limited powers derived exclusively from the act to regulate commerce.
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The facts are stated in the opinion. Congress has conferred upon the Interstate Commerce Commission authority to investigate, and in connection therewith compel the testimony of witnesses, only in aid of its duty to execute and enforce the provisions of the act to regulate commerce. The commission is a body of limited powers derived exclusively from the act to regulate commerce. It is a purely administrative body charged with specific administrative duties and invested with specific powers. Kentucky…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
These are appeals; on the one side, from an order of the Circuit Court directing the appellants, Harriman and Kahn, to answer certain questions put during an investigation by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and, on the other, from *414a denial of a like order as to two other questions, answers to which the commission had required.
In November, 1906, the Interstate Commerce Commission, of its own motion, and not upon complaint, made an order reciting the authority and requirements of the act to regulate commerce (Feb. 4, 1887, c. 104, 24 Stat. 379), and proceeding as follows: “And whereas it…
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