Legal Opinion
Virginian Railway Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 3, 1927No. 281, 282PublishedCited by 548 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brandeis
An extensive territory in West Virginia comprising the. coal mining districts known as New River, Tug River and Pocahontas is served by three railroad systems. Each grants blanket rates to destination from the mines within ■the district served by it. The blanket rates to each destination are the same on all the systems. Two of them, the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Norfolk & Western, have lines extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Middle West. The line of the third, the Virginian, extends only eastward to tidewater. Some mines in the district are served directly by only one of these…
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