Philadelphia & R. Ry. Co. v. United States
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Equity. Bill by the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company against the United States and another, to annul an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
1Opinion of the Court
WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.
By the prayer of the bill filed in this case, the court is asked to revoke and annul an order made by the Interstate Commerce Commission against the complainant and other carriers, commanding that they cease and discontinue certain unreasonable prejudices and disadvantages found to have been occasioned certain localities by tariffs imposed, under the following circumstances:
The cement manufacturing plant of the Allentown Portland Cement Company is situate at Evansville in a cement region in Pennsylvania known as the “Lehigh District.” Located elsewhere in the same…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Interstate Commerce CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- United States v. Louisville & Nashville RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- New York Cent. & H. R. R. v. Interstate Commerce CommissionU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1909
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- Merchants' & Manufacturers' Traffic Ass'n v. United StatesDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1915