Great Northern Railway Co. v. United States

(See dissent following the conclusion of the commissioner’s opinion.)

OPINION OE COMMISSIONER*

Stone, Commissioner:

Plaintiff seeks in this action to recover freight charges involving one shipment of explosive projectiles and 48 shipments of propelling charges for 120-mm antiaircraft guns, without projectiles, which moved over plaintiff’s lines and the lines of other carriers between *229various points within the United States during the years 1944 and 1945.

After the shipments had been completed, plaintiff, as the final and delivering carrier, billed the transportation charges to defendant who paid…