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UNITED STATES v. ATLANTA, B. & C.R. CO.

No. 88.

282 U.S. 522 (1931)

51 S.Ct. 37

75 L.Ed. 513

UNITED STATES ET AL. v. ATLANTA, BIRMINGHAM & COAST RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 24, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant to the Attorney General O'Brian, with whom Solicitor General Thacher and Messrs. William G. Davis and Elmer B. Collins, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, Erwin N. Griswold, and Daniel W. Knowlton, Chief Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, and Edward M. Reidy, Solicitor, were on the brief, for the United States et al.

Mr. Robert C. Alston, with whom Messrs. F.B. Grier, Carl H. Davis, and John A. Hynds were on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this suit, brought in the federal court for northern Georgia, under the Urgent Deficiencies Act, October 22, 1913, c. 32, 38 Stat. 208, 219, the Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad Company seeks by supplemental bill to enjoin and annul an alleged order of the Interstate Commerce Commission dated October 9, 1929. No formal order was made. Reorganization and Control of Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic...

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