Legal Opinion
Krauss Brothers Lumber Co. v. Mellon
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 9, 1928No. 342PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taft
Krauss Brothers Lumber Company is a corporation engaged in the wholesale lumber business, to whom the Interstate Commerce Commission, on the complaint of the •company, ordered the respondent railroad companies, the Mobile & Ohio Railroad and the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company, to pay reparation in the amount of $10,356 because of unlawful demurrage charges illegally collected. The sole issue was whether any such power had been vested in the Commission as would give it juris diction to decide that the charges should be refunded. Upon the Commission’s decision that it had such power,…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Parsons v. Bedford, Breedlove, & RobesonSupreme Court of the United States · 1830
- Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. CoxSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. CummingsSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Lincoln v. ClaflinSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- Waldron v. WaldronSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Alexander v. Cosden Pipe Line Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Metzler v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1933
- Hard & Rand, Inc. v. Biston Coffee Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1930
- Tingley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1929
- Duggins v. HeffronCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1942
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