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AMERICAN TRUCKING ASS'NS v. UNITED STATES

No. 62919.

17 F.Supp. 655 (1936)

AMERICAN TRUCKING ASS'NS, Inc., v. UNITED STATES et al.

District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

November 24, 1936.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. S. Brashears, J. Ninian Beall, and Harry C. Ames, all of Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Daniel W. Knowlton, of Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Littlepage & Littlepage and Hamilton & Hamilton, all of Washington, D. C., for Baltimore & O. R. Co.

McKenney, Flannery & Craighill, of Washington, D. C., for Pennsylvania R. R. and others.

Before GRONER, J., United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and WHEAT, C. J., and BAILEY, J.

GRONER, J.:

For more than 50 years some of the railroads in certain sections of the country were engaged in what is known as pick-up and delivery service in connection with the transportation by rail of merchandise traffic. The service, however, was neither continuous nor universal, but in those instances in which it existed, the Interstate Commerce Commission had uniformly held that it had jurisdiction to regulate it as part of the transportation service by railroad...

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