M. C. Kiser Co. v. Central of Georgia Ry. Co.
District Court, S.D. Georgia
In Equity. Suit by the M. C. Kiser Company and others against the Central of Georgia Railway Company and another. On motion for interlocutory injunction.
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In Equity. Suit by the M. C. Kiser Company and others against the Central of Georgia Railway Company and another. On motion for interlocutory injunction. The M. O. Kiser Company, the J. K. Orr Shoe Company, the Rice & Hutch-ins Atlanta Company, and the Grainling-Spalding Company, all corporations of Atlanta, Ga., on September 12, 1916, presented their petition in equity against the Central of Georgia Railway Company and the Ocean Steamship Company, to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Southern District of Georgia, in which they alleged, in brief, that…
1Opinion of the CourtLambdin, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The questions involved are of great importance, both to the complainants . and to the common carriers. This is a petition brought by four wholesale boot and shoe dealers in the city of Atlanta against the Central ■of Georgia Railway Company and the Ocean Steamship Company, asking that the court shall enjoin the collection of the excess of the new rates which have recently been published by the defendants over the rates which have heretofore existed between Boston, New York, and other Eastern ports and Atlanta, pending a full hearing of the reasonableness or…
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