Northern Pacific Railway Company v. United States Seaboard Air Line Railway

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Messrs. Alexander Britton, of Washington, D. C., C. W. Bunn, of St. Paul, Minn., and Evans Browne, of Washington, D. C., for appellant Northern Pac. Ry. Co.

Mr. Benjamin Carter, of Washington, D. C., for appellant Seaboard Air Line Ry.

Messrs. Frederic D. McKenney, J. Spalding Flannery, W. C. Carpenter, and G. B. Craighill, all of Washington, D. C., for appellant Ney York Cent. & H. R. R. Co.

Mr. F. Carter Pope, of Washington, D. C., for appellant Kansas City, M. & O. Ry. Co. of Texas.

''Mr. Solicitor General, Alex. C. King, of Atlanta, Ga., and Mr. La Rue Brown,'' of Boston, Mass., for the United States.

Mr. Justice HOLMES announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the following opinion, concurred in by the CHIEF JUSTICE and Justices BRANDEIS and CLARKE.