Southern Railway Co. v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

For convenience we will hereinafter designate the parties, complainant-appellant as “Southern” and the defendants-appellees as “Clinchfield”.

This suit was brought by Southern to obtain a construction of a contract entered into between the parties on August 24, 1960, under which Clinchfield granted Southern the right to joint use of Clinchfield’s trackage from a point some seven miles west of Kingsport, known as Frisco, to the manufacturing plant of Tennessee Eastman Company at Kingsport, and points on Long Island and the Horse Creek area, at or near Kingsport. The controversy arose between…