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ILL. CENT. R.R. CO. v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMM.

Nos. 416, 448.

245 U.S. 493 (1918)

38 S.Ct. 170

62 L.Ed. 425

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. STATE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF ILLINOIS ET AL. STATE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF ILLINOIS ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 14, 1918.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Silas H. Strawn, with whom Mr. Robert Bruce Scott and Mr. Andrew P. Humburg were on the briefs, for the railroad companies.

Mr. Robert Bruce Scott for Illinois Central Railroad Co.

Mr. Sydney R. Prince, Mr. Edward C. Kramer and Mr. Alexander Pope Humphrey filed a brief for Southern Railway Co. and Mobile & Ohio Railroad Co.

Mr. George T. Buckingham and Mr. James H. Wilkerson, Assistant Attorneys General of the State of Illinois, with whom Mr. Edward J. Brundage, Attorney General of the State of Illinois, was on the briefs, for State Public Utilities Commission of Illinois et al.

Mr. Joseph W. Folk for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

The Solicitor General, for the United States, submitted upon a brief, contending that the court below had no jurisdiction over the United States and the Interstate Commerce Commission.

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

The questions to which attention is first invited relate to the power of the District Court in the Northern District of Illinois to entertain the suits and the cross bills, in view of the jurisdictional provision in the Act of October 22, 1913, c. 32, 38 Stat. 219, that a suit "to enforce, suspend, or set aside, in whole or...

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