Champlin Refining Co. v. United States

The Interstate Commerce Commission, acting under § 19 (a) of the Interstate Commerce Act,1 ordered the appellant to furnish certain inventories, schedules, maps and charts of its pipe line property.2 Champlin’s objections that the Act does not authorize the order, or if it be construed to do so is unconstitutional, were overruled by the Commission and again by the District Court which dismissed the company’s suit for an injunction.3 These *32questions of law are brought here by appeal. Judicial Code § 238, 28 U. S. C. § 345.

Champlin owns and operates a line of six-inch pipe five hundred and…