Supreme Court of the United States, 1955

St. Joe Paper Co. v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided March 14, 1955 · Applications, Black, Consideration, Took

348 U.S. 963; 99 L. Ed. 750; 75 S. Ct. 522; 1955 U.S. LEXIS 1089 (United States Reports)

Counsel

William D. Mitchell, Edward E. Watts, Jr. and Dinsmore Adams for petitioners in No. 536 and the St. Joe Paper Co. et al., respondents in No. 573., Henry P. Adair, Fred H. Kent and Donald Russell for the DuPont Trustees et al., and Giles J. Patterson and John R. Turney for the St. Joe Paper Co., petitioners in No. 536 and respondents in No. 573., Clifton S. Thomson and Chester Bedell for Aird et al., Clarence M. Mulholland and Edward J. Hickey, Jr. for the Railway Labor Executives’ Association, Harold J. Gallagher, Walter H. Brown, Jr. and James B. McDonough, Jr. for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Co., and Sidney S. Alderman and Henry L. Walker for the Southern Railway System et al., petitioners in No. 536., Howard P. Macfarlane and George W. Erickson for Conn et al., and Miller Walton for Welbon et al., petitioners in No. 544., J. Turner Butler, John T. G. Crawford and Willard P. Scott for petitioners in No. 552., Edward W. Bourne, Charles Cook Howell, Charles Cook Howell, Jr. and Richard B. Gwathmey for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.

Cases that cite this one

10 later published cases cite this decision.

A.M. Capen's Co. v. American Trading & Production Corp. (District Court, D. Puerto Rico 2002)
United States v. Krilich (District Court, N.D. Illinois 1996)
Phoenix Exploration, Inc. v. Yaquinto (In re Murexco Petroleum, Inc.) (5th Cir. 1994)
State Ex Rel. Strandberg v. State Board of Land Commissioners (Mont. 1957)
Druid Hills Civic Ass'n v. Federal Highway Administration (United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia 1986)
151 West Associates v. Printsiples Fabric Corp. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1983)
South East Chicago Commission v. Department of Housing and Urban Development (7th Cir. 1973)
Woodahl v. State Highway Commission (Mont. 1970)
Matter Of Florida East Coast Railway Company, Debtor (1st Cir. 1955)
Chase-Manhattan Bank v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (5th Cir. 1955)

This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.

Opinion of the Court

C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.

Reported below: 216 F. 2d 832.

Mr. Justice Black and Mr. Justice Clark took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications.

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