United States v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE UNITED STATES COMMERCE COURT. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the Commerce Court and its power to issue restraining orders, and injunctions, are stated in the opinion. A carrier cannot make, the ownership of commodities the test of its duty to carry them or the criterion of the rates for carriage. Interstate Com.
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APPEAL PROM THE UNITED STATES COMMERCE COURT. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the Commerce Court and its power to issue restraining orders, and injunctions, are stated in the opinion. A carrier cannot make, the ownership of commodities the test of its duty to carry them or the criterion of the rates for carriage. Interstate Com. Comm. v. Delaware, L. & W. R. R- Co., 220 U. S. 235: For the sanie reason the carrier may not inquire as to the place of origin and base its rates upon that. A carrier may not make rules which discriminate between shippers standing in substantially the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
' This is a suit instituted in the Commerce Court to enjoin the enforcement of an .order by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The complainants in the bill are The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, The Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, The Erie Railroad Company, The Le-high Valley Railroad Company, The New York, Ontario and Western Railway Company, and The Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal and John Arbuckle and William A. Jamison, copart-ners, trading as the Jay Street Terminal, intervened and…
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