CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 63 C 145(3).

233 F.Supp. 381 (1964)

CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R. CO., et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Missouri, E. D.

August 24, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don McDevitt, Chicago, Ill., for Chicago, R. I. & P. R. Co.

J. C. Ashton, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., for St. Louis-S. F. Ry. Co.

R. H. Stahlheber, St. Louis, Mo., for Missouri Pac. R. Co.

J. C. Danielson, Chicago, Ill., for Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co.

Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, Fritz R. Kahn, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.

John H. D. Wigger, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Richard D. Fitz-Gibbon, Jr., U. S. Atty., John A. Newton, Asst. U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., for the United States.

Nuel D. Belnap, Chicago, Ill., Thompson, Mitchell, Douglas & Neill, and Wm. Guerri, St. Louis, Mo., for Federal Barge Lines and American Commercial Barge Line Co.

Donald Macleay, Washington, D. C., John C. Lovett, Benton, Ky., Thompson, Mitchell, Douglas & Neill and Wm. Guerri, St. Louis, Mo., for Arrow Transp. Co.

Joe Starnes, Jr., Guntersville, Ala., Thompson, Mitchell, Douglas & Neill and Wm. Guerri, St. Louis, Mo., for City of Guntersville, Alabama, Alabama Farm Bureau Federation and Guntersville Chamber of Commerce.

John A. Caddell, Decatur, Ala., Thompson, Mitchell, Douglas & Neill and Wm. Guerri, St. Louis, Mo., for City of Decatur, Ala., and Decatur Chamber of Commerce.

John C. Lovett, Benton, Ky., Thompson, Mitchell, Douglas & Neill, and Wm. Guerri, St. Louis, Mo., for Farmers Union Grain Ass'n and Indiana Farm Bureau Coop. Ass'n.

Fenner Heathcock, Union City, Tenn., for Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation.

Charles J. McCarthy, Gen. Counsel, Knoxville, Tenn., Thompson, Mitchell, Douglas & Neill and Wm. Guerri, St. Louis, Mo., for Tennessee Valley Authority.

Stuart Symington, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., Alexander B. Hawes, Washington, D. C., for Waterways Bulk Transp.

Before MATTHES, Circuit Judge, and HARPER and REGAN, District Judges.


REGAN, District Judge.

This action is brought to enjoin, set aside, suspend and annul the Interstate Commerce Commission's Report and Order dated July 6, 1962, as amended by a Corrected Order dated January 30, 1963, and served February 25, 1963. The Commission, in those orders, found that railroad rates on grain and grain products for outbound shipment from certain river ports to inland destinations, which grain had previously been transported by forhire barges, were...

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