Source: http://openjurist.org/print/23156
Timestamp: 2013-12-05 04:21:20
Document Index: 394519817

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 3', '§ 408', '§ 3', '§ 3', '§ 8', '§ 16']

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSIONv.UNITED STATES ex rel. CAMPBELL et al.
The Interstate Commerce Act makes it unlawful for a carrier to give any undue or unreasonable preference to a person or locality, or to subject any person or locality to an undue disadvantage (24 Stat. 380, § 3, and 41 Stat. 479, § 408, 49 U.S.C., § 3 (49 USCA § 3)), and charges the offender with liability for the full amount of damages resulting from the unlawful act. Section 8 (49 USCA § 8). Upon the hearing of a complaint, the Commission is empowered to ascertain the damages and award them. Section 16(1), 49 USCA § 16(1). The respondent by its complaint to the Commission invoked this dual jurisdiction, the administrative jurisdiction to prescribe a rule for the future (Great Northern Railway Co. v. Merchants' Elevator Co., 259 U.S. 285, 291, 42 S.Ct. 477, 66 L.Ed. 943; Baltimore & Ohio R. Co. v. Brady, 288 U.S. 448, 53 S.Ct. 441, 77 L.Ed. 888, March 13, 1933), and the judicial or quasi-judicial jurisdiction to give reparation for the past. Baltimore & Ohio R. Co. v. Brady, supra. In dismissing such a complaint, the Commission speaks with finality. Its orders purely negative—negative in form and substance—are not subject to review by this court or any other. Standard Oil Co. v. United States,