Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court, 41 F. Supp. 439, dismissing a suit to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce' Commission, 245 I. C. C. 11, requiring the appellant railroads to cease and desist from maintaining certain absorption rules and practices found to be unduly discriminatory and unreasonable, and therefore offensive to the Interstate Commerce Act, 49 U. S. C. §§1(6), 3(1), 15(1).

Upon complaint of the Minneapolis Traffic Association, representing grain interests in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, the Commission…