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KANSAS CITY SO. RY. v. UNITED STATES

No. 571.

231 U.S. 423 (1913)

34 S.Ct. 125

58 L.Ed. 296

KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 1, 1913.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Samuel Untermyer, with whom Mr. Walter C. Noyes, Mr. Arthur M. Wickwire and Mr. Irwin Untermyer were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Denison, with whom Mr. Thurlow M. Gordon, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Charles W. Needham for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

MR. JUSTICE PITNEY, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The contention of appellant in the Commerce Court and in this court is, that the regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission relative to the method of keeping the accounts of common carriers, so far as they are here questioned, are unreasonable, beyond the power or authority of either Congress or the Commission, and violative...

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