Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal v. United States

MEMORANDUM and ORDER

DOOLING, District Judge.

Plaintiff’s action is brought to enjoin and annul 1967 Orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission [28 U.S.C. § 1336 (a), (c)] which denied plaintiff the right to abandon certain track which it operated in Block 2349 of its Kent Avenue terminal on the East River waterfront in the Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn [28 U.S.C. §§ 2284, 2321-2325; 49 U.S.C. § 17(9)]. It is concluded that the relief sought must be denied.

Plaintiff has operated since 1940 as a common carrier subject to the Interstate Commerce Act. Plaintiff picks up freight cars on car…