The Pipe Line Cases
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE UNITED STATES COMMERCE COURT. The facts, which involve the constitutionality, construction and application of the provisions in the Hepburn Act relating to interstate transportation of oil by pipe lines, are stated in the opinion.
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APPEALS FROM THE UNITED STATES COMMERCE COURT. The facts, which involve the constitutionality, construction and application of the provisions in the Hepburn Act relating to interstate transportation of oil by pipe lines, are stated in the opinion. The pipe line amendment applies to these petitioners.' Congress intended the act to apply to every interstate' oil-carrying pipe line, and to compel every such interstate pipe line to. become a common carrier as a condition precedent to engaging in interstate commerce.. Whether. any particular pipe line had or had not been a common carrier prior to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
By the act of Congress of June 29, 1906, c. 3591, 34 Stat. 584, the Act to Regulate Commerce was amended so that the first section reads in part as follows: “That the provisions of this Act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persons engaged fin the transportation-of *558oil or other commodity, except water and excépt 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.” Thereafter the Interstate…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Hoke & Economides v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Riverside MillsSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Sabine Tram Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Rearick v. PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Charles F. Champion, Appt. v. John C. Ames, United States MarshalSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
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