Boston and Maine Railroad v. United States

OPINION OF THE COURT.

Before WOODBURY * Senior Circuit Judge, and WYZANSKI and GARRITY, District Judges. WOODBURY, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is another chapter in protracted litigation, primarily between long-haul freight originating railroads and short-haul freight terminating railroads, over the price one railroad should pay for the use on its line of another railroad’s freight cars. In a previous chapter this court held, one judge dissenting, that the Interstate Commerce Commission had jurisdiction to enter an order at the behest of the long-haul roads that the rates for freight car use…