Interstate Commerce Commission v. United States Ex Rel. Humboldt Steamship Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO. THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE DISTRICT .OP COLUMBIA. The facts, which involve the status of common carriers in Alaska under the Interstate Commerce Act, and the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission over common carriers in Alaska, are stated in the opinion. Alaska is not a Territory of the United States within the meaning of § 1 of the Act to Regulate Commerce.
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ERROR TO. THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE DISTRICT .OP COLUMBIA. The facts, which involve the status of common carriers in Alaska under the Interstate Commerce Act, and the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission over common carriers in Alaska, are stated in the opinion. Alaska is not a Territory of the United States within the meaning of § 1 of the Act to Regulate Commerce. Matter of Water Carriers in Alaska, 19 I. C. C. 81. In the jurisdictional clause of the Hepburn Act, the District of Alaska is not included by name and the word “District” as used in that section is confined to the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
The ultimate question in the case is whether Alaska is a Territory of the United States within the meaning of the Interstate Commerce Act as amended.
The Interstate Commerce Commission resolved the question in the negative and dismissed the petition of the Humboldt Steamship Company, the relator, which alleged violations of the act by the White Pass & Yukon Railway Company, operating in Alaska, applying its decision in Matter of Jurisdiction Over Rail and Water Carriers Operating in Alaska, 19 I. C. C. Rep. 81.
The steamship company instituted an action in the Supreme Court of the District of…
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