Prairie Oil & Gas Co. v. United States
Commerce Court
Separate petitions by the Prairie Oil & Gas Company, by the Uncle Sam Oil Company, by Robert D. Benson and others, by the Ohio Oil Company, by the Standard Oil Company, and by the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana against the United States of America; the Interstate Commerce Commission intervening in each case. On motions for preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Presiding Judge.
By an amendment approved June 29, 1906, which took effect 60 days thereafter, the provisions of the act to regulate commerce were extended and made to apply "to any corporation or any person or persons engaged in the transportation of oil or other commodity, except water and, except natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines, or partly by pipe lines and partly by railroad, or partly by pipe lines and partly by water, * * * who shall be considered and held to be common carriers within the meaning and purpose of this act. * * * ”
Subsequently, in June, 1911, the…
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