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INTERSTATE COMM. COM. v. CHI., R.I. & PAC. RY.

Nos. 663, 664.

218 U.S. 88 (1910)

30 S.Ct. 651

54 L.Ed. 946

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION v. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY. BURNHAM, HANNA, MUNGER DRY GOODS COMPANY v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 31, 1910.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Wade H. Ellis and Mr. Luther M. Walter, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Edwin P. Grosvenor, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, for the Interstate Commerce Commission, appellants in No. 663.

Mr. John H. Atwood and Mr. John Lee Webster, with whom Mr. George T. Bell was on the brief, for appellants in No. 664.

Mr. William D. McHugh and Mr. Colin C.H. Fyffe for appellees.

Mr. Frederick Manley Ives and Mr. Everett M. Burdett filed a brief as amici curiae on behalf of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and certain other business organizations.

MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

The question in the case is the validity of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission reducing the class rates charged by the appellee railroad companies on through freight shipped from the Atlantic seaboard to Kansas City, and St. Joseph, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska, cities on the Missouri River and called throughout the record, and in this opinion, Missouri River...

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