New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The petition charges the defendants with violating the Interstate Commerce Act by carrying out the verbal agreement of 1903, involving a carriage of coal for less than the published rates on file and ‘a discrimination forbidden by law.
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The petition charges the defendants with violating the Interstate Commerce Act by carrying out the verbal agreement of 1903, involving a carriage of coal for less than the published rates on file and ‘a discrimination forbidden by law. That contract is justified on two grounds: It does not involve a violation of the act, and if there is a seeming violation • of the act, it is only a seeming one. It is based upon a legal, adjusted and 'enforceable claim…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
delivered the ojiinion of the court.
Following an inquiry begun in consequence of a complaint to it made, the Interstate Commerce Commission, through the Attorney General of the United States, filed under the act to. further regulate commerce (32 Stat. 847), in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia, this-proceeding against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, a Virginiá corporation, and the- New York, New. Haven and Hartford. Railroad Company, a corporation of the State of Connecticut. In this opinion we shall hereafter respectively speak of the…
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