Illinois Central Railroad v. Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. This case involves the validity of an order- of the Interstate Commerce Commission requiring the appellants “to cease and desist on or before the first day of April, 1905, from further maintaining or enforcing the unlawful advance of two cents per hundred pounds, or the said unlawful rates resulting therefrom, for the transportation of lumber from shipping points on defendants’…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. This case involves the validity of an order- of the Interstate Commerce Commission requiring the appellants “to cease and desist on or before the first day of April, 1905, from further maintaining or enforcing the unlawful advance of two cents per hundred pounds, or the said unlawful rates resulting therefrom, for the transportation of lumber from shipping points on defendants’ respective lines in the State of Louisiana east of the Mississippi River and in the States of Mississippi' and Alabama to-…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
Counsel' for appellants in his oral argument made the declaration that it would not be necessary for this court to open the pages of testimony contained in the record, and says in his supplemental brief:
“I do not insist that this court shall read the voluminous testimony contained in these records, but I do most respectfully ask it to. lay, down the rules or principles of transportation law which are fairly involved in the just determination of these cases, and to remand them to the Commission to be re-examined upon the testimony in conformity with the principles of transportation law to be…
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- Interstate Commerce Commission v. Alabama Midland Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1897
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- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. BehlmerSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
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