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CHICAGO, I. & L. RY. v. U.S.

No. 150.

270 U.S. 287 (1926)

46 S.Ct. 226

70 L.Ed. 590

CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS & LOUISVILLE RAILWAY COMPANY ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. C.C. Hine and E.S. Ballard, with whom Mr. William L. Taylor was on the brief, for appellants.

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

Mr. R. Granville Curry, with whom Mr. P.J. Farrell was on the brief, for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Mr. Ernest S. Ballard, with whom Messrs. Rush C. Butler, William E. Lamb, and James Dale Thom were on the brief, for Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railway Company.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Four steam railroads whose lines enter Michigan City, Indiana, brought this suit against the United States, in the federal district court for that State, to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission entered April 2, 1924. The order directed the steam railroads to remove the unjust discrimination which the Commission found was being practiced against an...

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