Legal Opinion
Union Stock Yard & Transit Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 4, 1939No. 40PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stone
The principal question for decision upon this appeal is whether, in the services performed by appellant in loading and unloading livestock at its stockyards in Chicago, and specified by its tariffs filed with the Interstate Commerce Comjnission, it/is a common carrier subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, 24 Stat. 379, as amended in 1920; 41 Stat. 474, 49 U. S. C., §§ 1-27.
The case comes here on appeal from the final decree of a district court of three judges, 1 dismissing appellant’s suit to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which directed the cancellation of…
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