Seaboard Coast Line Railroad v. United States

BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company protests, primarily on procedural grounds, an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission that included “bumped” junior railway employees in the class of persons affected by Seaboard’s acquisition of joint control of the Richmond Broad Street Station.1 We find that the commission had authority to enter its order and the result it reached was proper.

The background of this proceeding can be briefly sketched. For many years employees of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company operated the Main Street Station in Richmond, Virginia, for the…