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VIRGINIAN RY. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 281, 282.

272 U.S. 658 (1926)

47 S.Ct. 222

71 L.Ed. 463

VIRGINIAN RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES ET AL. UNITED STATES ET AL. v. VIRGINIAN RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 13, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James W. Carmalt, with whom Messrs. E.W. Knight and W.H.T. Loyall were on the brief, for the Virginian Railway Co.

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

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

Mr. Ewing H. Scott filed a brief in behalf of the Gulf Coal Co. et al., interveners.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

An extensive territory in West Virginia comprising the coal mining districts known as New River, Tug River and Pocahontas is served by three railroad systems. Each grants blanket rates to destination from the mines within the district served by it. The blanket rates to each destination are the same on all the systems. Two of them, the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Norfolk & Western, have lines extending...

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