Dean Van Lines, Inc.

Carriers; rates, fares and charges; military household goods; mass shipments; special volume rates. — Plaintiff, one of several carriers participating in a mass shipment of military household goods of Air Force members from France to Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio, submitted to the Department of Defense a special volume rate of $34.00 per cwt. with a minimum weight of 8,000 pounds. Plaintiff was tendered 33 shipments of household goods on each of which a separate bill of lading was issued; plaintiff subsequently billed and defendant paid at the special volume rate per shipment. General…