Averill v. Southern Ry. Co.

SIMONTON, Circuit Judge.

This is a bill filed by the receiver of the Port Royal & Augusta Railway Company, asking the aid of the court in protecting the property placed in his charge. This is his-right as well as his duty. White v. Ewing, 159 U. S. 39, 15 Sup. Ct. 1018. The bill alleges tha i a rate war had been inaugurated between the Seaboard Air Line and the Southern Railway Company, two great systems of railroads, which, practically control the commerce between the several states tying on the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico; that one of these systems had begun a cut of 35 per cent,…