Brownsville Nav. Dist. v. St. Louis, B. & M. Ry. Co.

If I could agree with my associates that “the sole question presented on this appeal is the jurisdiction of the District Court to issue a writ of mandamus requiring appellees to perform their transportation duties under rates published and filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission,” I should be bound to agree with them that the District Judge should have taken jurisdiction, and, going further, to hold that the mandamus should have been granted. No one questions or could question that the District Courts of the United States are given such jurisdiction by statute.

As I read the record, the…