SEABOARD ALLIED MILLING CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES

No. 17237-2.

306 F.Supp. 879 (1969)

SEABOARD ALLIED MILLING CORPORATION et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants, and St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company et al., Intervening Defendants.

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

September 23, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Macleay and Peter A. Greene, of Macleay, Lynch, Bernard & Gregg, Washington, D. C., Don M. Jackson, of Jackson & Sherman, Kansas City, Mo., for plaintiffs.

Robert A. Hammond, III, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., and John H. D. Wigger, Atty., Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., Calvin K. Hamilton, U. S. Atty., and John L. Kapnistos, Asst. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., for United States of America.

Robert W. Ginnane, General Counsel and Manny H. Smith, Atty., Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Ernest D. Grinnell, Jr. and James S. Bowie, St. Louis, Mo., Thomas E. Deacy, Jr. and Edward Mullen, of Deacy & Deacy, Kansas City, Mo., for St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co., Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railway Co., Alabama, Tennessee & Northern R. R., Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R., Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R., Kansas City Southern Railway Co., Missouri Pacific Railroad Co.

Nola White, 1st Asst. Atty., Austin, Tex., for Railroad Commission of Texas.

Jack Glaves, Gen. Counsel, and Daniel C. Sullivan, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Topeka, Kan., for Kansas Corporation Commission.

Clem W. Fairchild & Robert B. Langworthy, of Linde, Thomson, Van Dyke, Fairchild & Langworthy, Kansas City, Mo., for Pillsbury Co., International Milling Co., Archer Daniels Midland Co., Kansas-Missouri-River Mills.

John F. Donelan and John H. Caldwell, of Donelan, Cleary & Caldwell, Washington, D. C., for Burris Mills, Inc., Bay State Milling Co.

Charles O. Ham, Jr., Oklahoma City, Okl., for Oklahoma Corporation Commission.

Deacy & Deacy, Kansas City, Mo., and E. D. Grinnell, Jr. and James S. Bowie, St. Louis, Mo., for Abilene & Southern Ry. Co., Arkansas & Louisiana Missouri Ry. Co., Arkansas Western Ry. Co., Beaver, Meade & Englewood R. Co., Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. Co., Colorado & Southern Ry. Co., Denver and Rio Grande Western R. Co., Doniphan, Kensett & Searcy Ry., Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Ry. Co., Fort Smith & Van Buren Ry. Co., Fort Worth & Denver Ry. Co., Gulf, Mobile & Ohio R. Co., Illinois Central R. Co., Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Ry. Co., Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. Co., M-K-T R. Co., Norfolk & Western Ry. Co., St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co., Southern Pacific Co., Texas & Pacific Ry. Co., Texas Mexican Ry. Co., Texas New Mexico Ry. Co., Union Pacific R. Co., Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Ry. Co.

Robt. B. Langworthy, Linde, Thomson, VanDyke, Fairchild & Langworthy, Kansas City, Mo., and Donelan, Cleary & Caldwell, Washington, D. C., for Southern Bakers Ass'n.

Before GIBSON, Circuit Judge, BECKER, Chief District Judge, and COLLINSON, District Judge.


MEMORANDUM AND JUDGMENT

COLLINSON, District Judge:

In this action plaintiffs seek to annul and set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission granting relief from the "long haul-short haul" prohibitions of Section 4(1) of the Interstate Commerce Act.1 This section makes it unlawful to charge more for a shorter haul than for a longer haul over the same route in the same direction...

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