Legal Opinion

Brimstone Railroad & Canal Co. v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 20, 1928No. 240PublishedCited by 64 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice McReynolds

Appellant seeks annulment of an Interstate Commerce Commission order, entered December 14, 1925, which designated the divisions- it might thereafter receive from agreed joint rates and required readjustment of divisions received subsequent to August 1, 1921, when the investigation began.

The Court below dismissed the bill. Two of the objections to the order, there advanced, will be considered.

1. The Commission failed to investigate or determine the reasonableness or justness of the divisions, or whether they were unjust, unreasonable, inequitable, or unduly preferential or prejudicial, as…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. New England Divisions CaseSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
  2. United States & Interstate Commerce Commission v. Abilene & Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1924

3Cited by64 opinions

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  4. Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western Railway Co. v. BeaumontSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
  5. New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. v. Communications Workers of AmericaSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1950

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