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LOUISVILLE & N.R. CO. v. U.S.

No. 333.

282 U.S. 740 (1931)

51 S.Ct. 297

75 L.Ed. 672

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 25, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Alfred P. Thom, with whom Messrs. Edward S. Jouett, R.V. Fletcher, John J. Cornwell, Robert B. Tunstall, H.N. Quigley, and Alfred P. Thom, Jr., were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Daniel W. Knowlton, Chief Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, with whom Solicitor General Thacher and Mr. Elmer B. Collins, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States et al.

Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court, constituted as required by statute, dismissing the petition of the appellants to set aside, in part, two orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which were made on November 4, 1929, and July 30, 1929, respectively.

The first mentioned order was made in a proceeding instituted by the Commission in December, 1925, on its own motion, for an...

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