Swayne & Hoyt, Ltd. v. United States

Appellants are steamship corporations engaged in the transportation of freight through the Panama Canal between United States ports on the Gulf of Mexico and on the Pacific Coast. They constitute the Gulf Inter-coastal Conference, which operates under an agreement, approved March 28, 1934, by the United States Shipping Board Bureau of the Department of Commerce, as provided by § 15 of the Shipping Act of 1916, 39 Stat. 733, 46 U. S. C. § 814. On May 25, 1933, the Conference, in conformity to the Inter coastal Shipping Act of 1932, § 2, 47 Stat. 1425, 46 U. S. C. § 844, filed with the United…