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SPRUNT & SON v. UNITED STATES

No. 19.

281 U.S. 249 (1930)

50 S.Ct. 315

74 L.Ed. 832

ALEXANDER SPRUNT & SON, INC., ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 14, 1930.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. John W. Davis and R.C. Fulbright for appellants.

Mr. J. Stanley Payne, with whom Solicitor General Hughes and Messrs. George C. Butte and Daniel W. Knowlton were on the brief, for the United States and Interstate Commerce Commission.

Mr. Albert L. Reed, with whom Messrs. Mart H. Royston and C.B. Cochran were on the brief, for Arkansas Cotton Trade Association et al., interveners.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Interstate Commerce Commission entered, on April 4, 1927, an order directed to the railroads operating in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana, which required them to remove, in a manner prescribed, undue prejudice and preference caused by their rates on cotton shipped from interior points to Houston and other ports on the Gulf of Mexico. Application of Rates...

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