Kansas City Southern Railway Company Et Al. v. United States Et Al‪.‬

This suit was brought to set aside two orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission of November 4, 1929, and July 30, 1929, respectively (155 I. C. C. 775), relating to the transportation by carriers subject to the Interstate Commerce Act of private passenger-train cars, including so-called office cars, of other carriers free or at other than published tariff rates. The orders are the same as those under review in Louisville & Nashville R. Co. v. United States, ante, p. 740. Treating the two orders, which deal with the same subject matter, as substantially one requirement, the appellants challenge it "so far as it prohibits the movement of an office car of another carrier upon such terms as the interested parties may mutually agree upon, when such office car is occupied exclusively by officers and employees of the company owning the car and traveling upon business in connection with the operation of their own railroad." They also object to so much of the order as purports to regulate movements which are strictly intrastate. The District Court,