Interstate Commerce Commission v. Western & A. R.

NEWMAN, District Judge.

On the 16th day of October, 1891, L. N. Trammell, Allen Fort, and Virgil Powers, constituting the railroad commission of Georgia, filed with the interstate commerce commission a petition setting up a violation on the part of the above-named defendants of section 4 of the act of congress, entitled “An act to regulate commerce” (24 Stat. 879). The petition, after setting out that the defendants are common carriers engaged in transporting goods from Cincinnati, Ohio, to points in Georgia, and therefore subject to the act to regulate commerce, complains that the rates…