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AVENT v. UNITED STATES

No. 52.

266 U.S. 127 (1924)

45 S.Ct. 34

69 L.Ed. 202

AVENT v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 17, 1924.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frank E. Wood, with whom Mr. Edgar M. Powers was on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Blackburn Esterline, Assistant to the Solicitor General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck was on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

Transportation Act, 1920, (February 28, 1920, c. 91,) Title IV, § 402 (15), 41 Stat. 456, 474, 476, authorizes the Interstate Commerce Commission, whenever it is of opinion that shortage of equipment, congestion of traffic or other emergency requiring immediate action exists in any section of the country, to suspend its rules as to car service and to make such reasonable rules with regard to it as in the...

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