United States ex rel. Greenbrier Coal & Coke Co. v. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co.

KEENER, District Judge.

The Greenbrier Coal & Coke Company, suing in the name of the United States of America, exhibited its petition against the Norfolk & Western Railway Company, a-corporation engaged in transporting interstate commerce, alleging: a violation of the act of Congress approved February 4, 1887,. c... 104, 24 Stat. 379 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3154], entitled “An act. to regulate commerce,” and of the several acts amendatory and supplementary thereto. In the petition the other defendants were named as parties which had profited by the alleged unlawful discrimination against the…