Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE -DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. The case is stated in the opinion. Each plaintiff pays for, and through the joint agency performs, the service incident to switching its car between the point of interchange and the industry, in the case of every car which is hauled inbound or outbound over its ■tracks.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE -DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. The case is stated in the opinion. Each plaintiff pays for, and through the joint agency performs, the service incident to switching its car between the point of interchange and the industry, in the case of every car which is hauled inbound or outbound over its ■tracks. Accordingly neither switches for the other nor discriminates against the Tennessee Central in refusing to switch for it. If the arrangement should be held to constitute any sort of switching service, rendered by one of the constituent…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes'
This is an appeal from a decree, made by three judges^ sitting in the District Court, which denied a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission and dismissed the appellants’ petition. 227 Fed. Rep. 258, id. 273. See 33 I. C. C. 76, for the report of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The order complained of required the appellants, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway and the Louisville & Nashville Terminal Company to desist and abstain “from maintaining a practice whereby they refuse…
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