Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co. et al. v. United States et al. (340 U.S. 216)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided January 2, 1951 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 340 U.S. 216 · 71 S. Ct. 264
- Decided
- January 2, 1951
- Term
- October Term 1950
- Vote
- 8–1
- Majority author
- Justice Minton
- Issue area
- Judicial Power
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
Mr. Justice Minton delivered the opinion of the Court. In No. 45 appellant common carriers by railroad brought this suit against the United States in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to enjoin an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission issued June 13, 1949, in a proceeding instituted by the Commission entitled Rail and Barge Joint Rates, No. 26712 on the Commission’s docket. Appellee Interstate Commerce Commission intervened as a party defendant before the District Court, as did appellee common carriers by water, American Barge Line Company (American), Inland Waterways Corporation, doing business as Federal Barge Lines (Federal), and Mississippi Valley Barge Line Company (Valley). A statutory three-judge court heard the case and, upon findings of fact made and conclusions of law stated, denied the injunction and dismissed the complaint. 88 F. Supp. 982. This direct appeal under 28 U. S. C. § 1253 followed. The Rail and Barge Joint Rates proceeding before the Commission was instituted in 1934 as an investigation ancillary to certain formal complaints before the Commission under § 3 (e) of the Inland Waterways Corporation Act, as amended by the Denison Act, 45 Stat. 980, and ancillary to other proceedings involving the same subject matter as the complaints. The investigation instituted concerned the reasonableness and lawfulness of existing through…
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