Legal Opinion
In the Matter of Iowa Railroad Company, Debtor. Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Terry F. Moritz, Trustee of Iowa Railroad Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 18, 1988No. 86-2760 & 87-1082PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
The Iowa Railroad endured from October 1981 to November 1984. During these years it conducted operations, largely with rented equipment, over 511 miles of other lines’ track. Much of its business involved freight handled by two or more carriers. When the Iowa was the first carrier — for example, when picking up a shipment of grain that it would turn over to the Union Pacific for the haul to the west coast — it collected the charge for the entire movement. Other carriers would do the same for shipments they originated in which the Iowa was the terminating line. At…
2Cases cited44 opinions
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