American Trucking Associations v. United States

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

■The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company is a through trunk-line railroad operating, so far as is here pertinent, across the State of Iowa from Davenport to Council Bluffs. It owns a subsidiary, called herein “Motor Transit”, which owns operating rights and property as a motor carrier on routes paralleling or stemming from the Railroad route. The motor carrier certificates have heretofore contained limitations requiring that the motor service-be auxiliary or supplementary to the rail service, but those limitations were stayed and have never been…