Case Name: INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT, INC., Plaintiff, C. & H. Transportation Co., Inc., and J. H. Rose Truck Line, Inc., Intervening Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants (two cases); LEONARD BROS. TRUCKING CO., Inc., Plaintiff, C & H Transportation Co., Inc., and J. H. Rose Truck Line, Inc., Intervening Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1970-03-09
Citations: 318 F. Supp. 763
Docket Number: Nos. 2136, 2141 and 2144
Parties: INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT, INC., Plaintiff, C. & H. Transportation Co., Inc., and J. H. Rose Truck Line, Inc., Intervening Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants (two cases). LEONARD BROS. TRUCKING CO., Inc., Plaintiff, C & H Transportation Co., Inc., and J. H. Rose Truck Line, Inc., Intervening Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Supplement
Volume: 318
Pages: 763–765

Head Matter:
INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT, INC., Plaintiff, C. & H. Transportation Co., Inc., and J. H. Rose Truck Line, Inc., Intervening Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants (two cases). LEONARD BROS. TRUCKING CO., Inc., Plaintiff, C & H Transportation Co., Inc., and J. H. Rose Truck Line, Inc., Intervening Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants.
Nos. 2136, 2141 and 2144.
United States District Court, W. D. Missouri, Southwestern Division.
March 9, 1970.
Karl Schmidt, Morrison, Hecker, Cozad, Morrison & Curtis, Kansas City, Mo., Van Osdel, Foss, Johnson & Miller, Fargo, N. D., Lord Bissell & Brook, Chicago, 111., for International Transport Co.
Calvin K. Hamilton, U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., Manny H. Smith, I. C. C., Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.
John D. Wigger, Dept, of Justice, Washington, D. C., for United States.
Lawrence R. Brown, Stinson Mag, Thomson, McEvers & Fizzell, Kansas City, Mo., for C. I. Whitten Transfer Co., Riss and Co., Inc., Hughes Transportation, Inc. and Tri-State Motor Transit.
Stephen P. Murphy, Kansas City, Mo., Rice, Carpenter & Carraway, Washington, D. C., for Regular Common Carrier Conference of American Trucking Asscns., Inc., and Munition Carriers Conference, Inc.
Thomas E. James, James M. Doherty and Mert Starnes, James, Robinson, Felts & Starnes, Austin, Tex., William M. Austin, James, McFarland & Trimble, North Kansas City, Mo., William 0. Turney and Robert Burk, Turney & Turney and Robert Burk, Turney & Turney, Washington, D. C., for Leonard Brothers Trucking Co., Inc. and Heavy Specialized Carriers Conference.
Edward Mullen, Kansas City Mo., Ed. White and Thomas Phemister, Chicago, 111., for intervening Railroads.
Helliwell, Melrose & DeWolf, Shelby Highsmith, Miami, Fla., for C & H Transp. Co., Inc., Inc., J. H. Rose Truck Line, Inc., Leonard Brothers Trucking Co., Inc.

Opinion:
ORDER OF REMAND
This consolidated case upon submission to and upon examination by the undersigned three-judge court, and by Judge Hunter as a single-judge court, has led the Court to the conclusion that the Interstate Commerce Commission has inadvertently overlooked consideration of a regulation which it originally issued and which was later "adopted" by the Department of Transportation bearing directly on the rolling of certain explosives during the time involved in the instant consolidated case. (See, Title 49 — Transportation — Section 177.835 (Explosives) Subsection (b) " nor shall any package or other container of explosives, except barrels or kegs, be rolled.")
In order to give the Commission opportunity to consider this regulation and its bearing, if any, on the instant matter (MC-C 5766), it is necessary to remand this cause to the Commission so that it may reconsider its findings and opinion.
Additionally, the Commission may find it desirable or helpful to take additional evidence or to make a further record in connection with several matters which counsel on appeal to this Court have contended either that there is an absence of evidence or that there is insufficient evidence to support the Commission's findings and conclusions. (See, for example: Contention there is no evidence of manu al unloading of 500 and 750 pound bombs during pertinent times; contention of insufficient or unclear evidence regarding the manual loading of them; and Contention that there is no evidence that the current type of 500 and 750 pound bombs can be satisfactorily coated, or provided with shipping bands so as to permit the rolling of them without scratching or danger).
It is hereby ordered that this case be and it is hereby remanded to the Interstate Commerce Commission for rehearing and reconsideration.
It is so ordered.
FLOYD R. GIBSON
Circuit Judge
WILLIAM R. COLLINSON
District Judge
ELMO B. HUNTER
District Judge
Judge, Three-Judge Court
ELMO B. HUNTER_
District Judge
Judge, Single-Judge Court