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NEW YORK v. UNITED STATES

No. 283.

257 U.S. 591 (1922)

42 S.Ct. 239

66 L.Ed. 385

STATE OF NEW YORK ET AL. v. UNITED STATES, CLARK ET AL., CONSTITUTING THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION, AND (INTERVENING) LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 27, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward G. Griffin and Mr. John E. Benton, with whom Mr. Charles D. Newton, Attorney General of the State of New York, and Mr. George L. Meade were on the briefs, for appellants.

Mr. Walter C. Noyes and Mr. Alfred P. Thom, with whom Mr. George F. Brownell, Mr. W.S. Jenney, Mr. C.L. Andrus, Mr. R.W. Barrett, Mr. John J. Beattie, Mr. D.E. Minard and Mr. William D. Waldron were on the briefs, for the railroad companies, intervening defendants.

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

Mr. Solicitor General Beck for the United States.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a bill in equity against the United States and the Interstate Commerce Commission and others brought by the State of New York and its Attorney General to annul and enjoin the enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission requiring the interstate railroads operating in intrastate commerce in the State of New York to charge in such commerce 3.6 cents a mile for all passengers, twenty...

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