United States ex rel. Attorney General v. Union Stockyard & Transit Co. of Chicago

The petition is well dismissed as to the three respondents, with respect to whom it is found that neither the Elkins nor the interstate commerce act apply. It is held, however, that the Junction Railway Company is a common carrier engaged in interstate commerce, and therefore liable to publish tariffs and to make reports, and as to this I feel compelled to dissent.

Nothing of the kind can be predicated on the use which the Junction Railway Company permits of its tracks by the trunk line carriers as a connecting link, to haul by their own motive power through trains moving from one to the…