St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Ry. v. Brownsville Navigation District

Respondents applied to the United States court for the southern district of. Texas to obtain a writ of mandamus 1 commanding petitioners to transport certain traffic and to furnish and continue for all time to furnish cars for transportation of freight between the Port of Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico. Petitioners by pleas to the jurisdiction asserted that the questions raised were essentially administrative and that therefore resort must first be had to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The district court heard evidence on the issues tendered by the pleas, sustained the…