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UNITED STATES v. BALT. & OHIO R.R. CO.

No. 385.

231 U.S. 274 (1913)

34 S.Ct. 75

58 L.Ed. 218

UNITED STATES v. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 1, 1913.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Solicitor General Bullitt for the United States.

Mr. P.J. Farrell for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Mr. Ernest A. Bigelow for the Federal Sugar Refining Company:

Mr. George F. Brownell, with whom Mr. H.A. Taylor was on the brief, for the Railroad Companies, appellees.

Mr. H.B. Closson for the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal, appellee.

Mr. William N. Dykman for the Jay Street Terminal and Arbuckle Brothers, appellees.

MR. JUSTICE LURTON delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal involves the legality of an order made by the Interstate Commerce Commission holding that certain allowances made by the appellees to Arbuckle Brothers on sugar shipped by them over one or another of the railroad companies' lines constitute an illegal preference or discrimination in violation of the Act to Regulate Commerce. The order of the Commission required the railroad companies to cease and desist...

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