Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Nottingham & Wrenn, Inc.

During the year 1920, especially from May to De*752eeirtber of that year, the. market for coal was in a very chaotic and inflated condition on account of strikes at the coal operations, transportation troubles, and the very active demand for foreign shipment. In consequence thereof prices for coal were abnormally high, so high in fact that the executive department of the United States was invoking the Lever act (U. S. Comp. St. 1918, U. S. Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 3115⅛-e, et seq.), and exerting the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission to restrain profiteering in coal. The tidewater…