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POWELL v. UNITED STATES

No. 295.

300 U.S. 276 (1937)

57 S.Ct. 470

81 L.Ed. 643

POWELL ET AL., RECEIVERS, v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Charles R. Abeles and W.R.C. Cocke for appellants.

Assistant Attorney General Dickinson, with whom Solicitor General Reed and Messrs. Elmer Collins, Wendell Berge, E.M. Reidy, and Daniel W. Knowlton were on the brief, for the United States and Interstate Commerce Commission, appellees.

Mr. T.M. Cunningham, with whom Mr. A.R. Lawton, Jr., was on the brief, for H.D. Pollard, Receiver of Central of Georgia Ry. Co., appellee.

MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

In proceedings initiated on complaint of the receiver of the Central of Georgia Railway Company, the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered to be "stricken from the files" a tariff filed by the receivers of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company. The tariff extended Fort Benning Junction switching limits to include receiving and delivery tracks at Fort Benning military...

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