Legal Opinion
Anchor Coal Co. v. United States
District Court, S.D. West Virginia
Decided April 14, 1928PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge.
This suit was brought by coal producers engaged in mining and shipping coal from southern West Virginia, western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and eastern Kentucky, against the United States and a number of railroad companies engaged in the transportation of coal from that territory to ports on Lake Erie. Its purpose is to enjoin the enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, entered February 21, 1928, which directs that the carriers cancel certain rate schedules which they have filed, reducing by 20 cents per ton the freight rate on “lake cargo” coal…
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