Los Angeles & S. L. R. v. United States

Existing circumstances do not admit of the preparation of a *737 full opinion in this ease, although it has received the careful consideration its imporianee demands. We will merely briefly indicate the views which are the basis of the conclusion to which we have come.

The Act of Congress of June 29, 1906 ( 34 Stat. 584 [Comp. St. § 8563 et seq.]), entitled “An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” in its sixteenth section provided, among other things, as follows:

The act of June 18, 1910 ( 36 Stat. 539 ), entitled “An act to create a Commerce Court, and to amend the act entitled 'An act to regulate commerce,’, approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as heretofore amended, and for other purposes,” created a court of the United States, to be known as the Commerce Court, and to have the jurisdiction then possessed by Circuit Courts of the United States and the judges thereof over all cases of certain described kinds, including “eases brought to enjoin, set aside, annul, or suspend…