Supreme Court of the United States June 21, 1915, 517 (United States v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad)

Me. Justice Lamar,

after making the foregoing statement of facts, delivered the opinion of the court.

The Commodity Clause of the Hepburn Act was intended to prevent railroads from occupying the dual and inconsistent positions of public carrier and private shipper; and, in order to separate the business of transportation from the business of selling, that statute made it unlawful for railroads to