Procter & Gamble Co. v. United States
Commerce Court
Petition by the Procter & Gamble Company against the United States and others to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission (19 Interst. Com. R. 556) refusing to annul a provision of the Uniform Demurrage Code, requiring privately owned cars while standing on private tracks to pay demurrage under certain circumstances.
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHBALD, Judge.
The Procter & Gamble Company, the petitioner, is engaged in the manufacture of soap, and the refining of cotton seed and other oils, and owns large industrial establishments at Ivorydale, Ohio, Port Ivory, N. Y., and Kansas City, Kan. In all its plants it has and maintains private railroad tracks, for the purpose of receiving cars from the interchange tracks which connect it with the respondent railroads. At two of the places named it owns and employs its own locomotives and itself performs the entire switching of cars, and at the other the switching is performed by the…
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