Interstate Commerce Commission v. United States Ex Rel. Campbell

How courts have described this case

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• It is “elementary” that “to compel an adjudication in a particular way . . . is not the function of the writ.”
• Mandamus cannot be used to correct “[e]rrors of law” in exercise of “essentially judicial” functions just like “errors of fact” may not be thus corrected.
• “The question is not how much better off the complainant would be today if it had paid a lower rate. The question is how much worse off it is because others have paid less.”
• when discrimination and that alone is gist of offense, difference between one rate and another is not the measure of damages suffered by the ship- per

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