Legal Opinion

Texas & Pac. Ry. v. Gulf, Etc., Ry.

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 1, 1926No. 417PublishedCited by 165 opinions

1Opinion of the Court 1

270 U.S. 266 (1926)

TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY

v.

GULF, COLORADO & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY.

No. 417.

Supreme Court of United States.

Argued December 2, 1925.

Decided March 1, 1926.

APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT.

Messrs. T.D. Gresham and Thomas J. Freeman, for appellant.

Mr. J.W. Terry, with whom Messrs. Homer W. Davis, Gardiner Lathrop, and Thomas J. Norton were on the brief, for appellee.

2Opinion of the Court · BrandeisJustice Brandeis

Transportation Act, 1920, c. 91, § 402, 41 Stat. 456, 477-8, provides, Paragraph (18): ". . . no carrier by railroad subject to this Act shall undertake the extension of its line…

3Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Great Northern Railway Co. v. Merchants Elevator Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1922
  2. New England Divisions CaseSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
  3. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Ass'nSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
  4. The Chicago Junction CaseSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
  5. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1926

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4Cited by165 opinions

  1. Northern Plains Resource Council, Inc. v. Surface Transportation BoardCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2011
  2. Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
  3. Hughes v. Consol-Pennsylvania Coal Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1991
  4. Civil Aeronautics Board v. Modern Air Transport, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1950
  5. Green v. ObergfellCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1941

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