Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. United States

This suit was brought by the appellant, for brevity called the Chesapeake, under the Urgent Deficiencies Act, 28 U. S. C., § 47, against the United States, the Guyandot and Tug River Railroad Company and the Norfolk and Western Railway Company. The former is a subsidiary of the latter and both may be called the Norfolk. The Interstate Commerce Commission appeared as a defendant. 28 U. S. C., § 45a. The purpose of the suit was to set aside and annul so much of an order and certificate of the Commission entered and issued July 23, 1928 (145 I. C. C. 167, 188, 193) and so much of subsequent…