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Timestamp: 2019-04-22 08:21:53+00:00

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Interstate Commerce Commission v. United States ex Rel.
Mandamus will not lie to compel the Interstate Commerce Commission to set aside a decision upon the merits and to decide the matter in another specified way. P. 260 U. S. 34.
51 App.D.C. 136; 277 F. 538, reversed.
Error to a judgment of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia reversing a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District (which dismissed a petition for mandamus) and directing that mandamus issue.
in and obtained benefits from the alleged violations of law, were not in a position to complain. Its judgment was reversed by the Court of Appeals of the District on the ground that, upon the facts found by the Commission complainants were clearly entitled to relief. The case was remanded, with directions to issue the mandamus. 51 App.D.C. 136, 277 F. 538. It is here on writ of error.
We have no occasion to consider the merits of the controversy before the Commission. That it did not dismiss the complaint for lack of jurisdiction is clear. It heard the case fully. It found that the rates charged were not unreasonable or discriminatory in violation of the Commerce Act, nor unreasonable for the service actually performed in violation of the Federal Control Act. It found that the conditions complained of were an incident of the World War, that the arrangement for loading was a voluntary one beneficial to complaints' members, that there was no provision in the tariffs for allowance to shippers who load cars, and that therefore such allowance could not legally be made by the carriers. The Commission dismissed the complaint because it held that the petitioners were not entitled to relief. Waste Merchants' Association v. Director General, 57 I.C.C. 686.
had wrongly held that it did not have jurisdiction to adjudicate the controversy; nor is it like Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 252 U. S. 178, where the Commission wrongly refused to perform a specific, peremptory duty prescribed by Congress.
Whether a judicial review can be had by some other form of proceeding we need not inquire. Compare Louisiana & Pine Bluff Railway Co. v. United States, 257 U. S. 114, 257 U. S. 116; Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. v. United States, 240 U. S. 334, 240 U. S. 336; Proctor & Gamble Co. v. United States, 225 U. S. 282.

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