Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Behlmer
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. This controversy was commenced on December- 29, 1892, when Henry W. Behlmer, a resident of Summerville, South Carolina, and a wholesale hay and grain dealer therein, began proceedings, before the Interstate Commerce Commission, under the Act to regulate Commerce, passed February 4, 1887, as amended, to restrain the continuance of acts asserted by him to be a violation of the statute referred to.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. This controversy was commenced on December- 29, 1892, when Henry W. Behlmer, a resident of Summerville, South Carolina, and a wholesale hay and grain dealer therein, began proceedings, before the Interstate Commerce Commission, under the Act to regulate Commerce, passed February 4, 1887, as amended, to restrain the continuance of acts asserted by him to be a violation of the statute referred to. The petition was filed by Behlmer on his own behalf, and that of the other merchants, residents of Summerville, and the parties…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
The questions which arise on this record involve the consideration of several provisions of the act of February 4, 1887, c. 104, to regulate Commerce. 24 Stat. 379.
The particular questions at issue and the aspect in which they arise' will be best shown by first considering the action of the Commission, then that of the Circuit Court in reviewing the order of that body, and, thirdly, that of the Circuit Court of Appeals in reversing the decree of the Circuit Court. The Commission held, as a matter of fact, that the carriers so conducted their business as to constitute a through line within the…
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