Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. American Tie & Timber Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE PIPTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the Federal courts of cases to recover damages against a railway company for refusing to accept interstate shipments without action first taken theréon by the Interstate Commerce Commission, are stated in the opinion. The Circuit Court did not have power to determine the issues and grant the relief prayed for under the facts disclosed by the record.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE PIPTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the Federal courts of cases to recover damages against a railway company for refusing to accept interstate shipments without action first taken theréon by the Interstate Commerce Commission, are stated in the opinion. The Circuit Court did not have power to determine the issues and grant the relief prayed for under the facts disclosed by the record. The trial court should have instructed a verdict for the plaintiff in error. The damages of defendant in error caused by its consent to the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
Basing its cause of action on the Act to Regulate Commerce the American Tie ■& Timber Company, defendant in error, hereafter called the Tie Company, commenced suits in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, plaintiff in error, and the Kansas City Southern Railway Company to recover damages alleged to have resulted from the refusal of the railway companies to furnish, in September, October and November, 1907, cars for the loading of oak railway crossties at various points on the line of the railways in Arkansas and…
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