United States v. Merchants & Mfrs. Traffic Assn. of Sacramento
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP CALIFORNIA. The case is stated in the opinion. The orders complained of and the tariffs filed thereunder operated, first, to increase freight rates to and from Sacramento, Stockton, San Jose and Santa Clara, and second, to remove those cities from the list of “California Terminals” and classify them as “intermediates.”
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APPEAL PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP CALIFORNIA. The case is stated in the opinion. The orders complained of and the tariffs filed thereunder operated, first, to increase freight rates to and from Sacramento, Stockton, San Jose and Santa Clara, and second, to remove those cities from the list of “California Terminals” and classify them as “intermediates.” The increase in rates was unjustified; and depriving the four cities of the benefit of terminal rates was unreasonable and discriminated against them in favor of San Francisco and Oakland. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brandeis
By the Act of June 18, 1910, c. 309, 36 Stat. 539, 547, amending § 4 of the Act to Regulate Commerce, carriers were prohibited from charging more “for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same direction” without obtaining authority from the Interstate Commerce Commission so to do. A period of six months from the passage of the amendment was provided within which carriers might file application for authority to continue charges of that nature then lawfully existing.
For many years prior to 1910 it had been a common practice to make freight rates from the East…
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