ICC "Tap Line Case": The Individual Cases Described.  
     
  Abstracted from "Tap Line Case", published in Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission, 23 I.C.C. 277, 23 I.C.C. 549, and in Decisions of the United States Supreme Court, 234 U.S. 1.  
     
 

Part 1, Decided April 23, 1912
1. Introduction and summary of opinions.
2. Discriminations resulting from allowances.
3. What is a tap line? Tap lines generally described.
4. General principle controlling the controversy.
5. Each case must stand on its own facts.
6. The log movement to the mill.
7. Use of passes by tap-line officers.
8. The individual cases described.
9. Cases.
10. Supplemental report.

Part 2, Decided May 14, 1912
1. Supplemental Report of the Commission.
2. Cases.
3. Irregular practices of tap lines.

  
 
 
 
     
 

THE INDIVIDUAL CASES DESCRIBED. To these general observations it may fairly be assumed that no valid objection can be made, for what is a plant facility can not also be a common carrier for the plant, and what is an industrial service can not also be a service of transportation. These principles, we think, should be applied to each of the companies whose affairs are now to be stated. In the brief summary that follows we have endeavored to outline the history of each tap line, its ownership, physical condition, the nature and source of its traffic and revenues, and the manner in which its operations for the proprietary company are conducted. Our finding is that in none of the cases that follow does the tap line perform a service of transportation as a common carrier either in the movement of the lumber of the proprietary company from its mill to the trunk line or in the movement of its logs from the forest to its mill.

[See the "Tap Line" case index for links to individual companies]

Angelina & Neches River R.R.
Arkansas & Gulf R.R.
Arkansas Eastern R.R.
Bearden & Ouachita River R.R.
Beaumont & Saratoga Transportation Co.
Bernice & Northwestern Ry.
Black Bayou R.R.
Blytheville Burdette & Mississippi River Ry.
Bodcaw Valley Ry.
Brookings & Peach Orchard R.R.
Crossett Ry.
Dorcheat Valley R.R.
Fordyce & Princeton R.R.
Freeo Valley R.R.
Homan & Southeastern Ry.
Jefferson & Northwestern Ry.
L'anguille River Ry.
Little Rock, Maumelle & Western R.R.
Little Rock, Sheridan & Saline River Ry.
Malvern & Freeo Valley Ry.
Mangham & Northeastern Ry.
Mill Creek & Little River Ry.
Mississippi, Arkansas & Western Ry.
Natchez, Urania & Ruston Ry.
Ouachita Valley Ry.
Peach River Lines.
Red River & Rocky Mount Ry.
Southern Pine System.
Wilmar & Saline Valley R.R.
Woodworth & Louisiana Central Ry.

  
     
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