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BENSON v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 828-58.

175 F.Supp. 264 (1959)

Ezra Taft BENSON, Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America et al., Defendants.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

June 5, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James K. Knudson and Walter D. Matson, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Charles W. Bucy, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Lester R. Conley and Joseph E. Quin, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., for the Secretary of Agriculture.

Victor R. Hansen, Asst. Atty. Gen., James E. Kilday and Colin A. Smith, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the Commodity Credit Corp.

Robert Ginnane and C. H. Johns, Jr., Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Edward M. Reidy, Washington, D. C., Charles W. Burkett, Jr., and Frederick G. Pfrommer, San Francisco, Cal., for the intervening railroad.

Donald B. MacGuineas and Arthur H. Fribourg, Dept. of Justice, Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., Edward P. Troxell, Principal Asst. U. S. Atty., John F. Doyle and Harold D. Rhynedance, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., for the United States.

SIRICA, District Judge.

This is an action brought by the Secretary of Agriculture, the Commodity Credit Corporation and twenty-six commercial shippers of cotton in the southwestern United States to obtain review of the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission in denying plaintiffs' petition for reparations from certain rail companies based on alleged overcharges and unreasonable rates on the shipment of plaintiffs' cotton.

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