Belmont Iron Works v. Pacific Coast Direct Line, Inc.

The action is to recover a sum claimed to have been wrongfully collected by the defendant as freight for the transportation of structural steel consigned by the plaintiff from Chester, Pa., to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In May, 1934, the plaintiff wrote to Sobelman & Co., the defendant’s Philadelphia agents, requesting a rate on such a shipment. Sobelman & Co. communicated with the defendant, which, by letter of May 24, 1934, quoted a rate of nine dollars and eighty cents per ton of two thousand pounds or forty cubic feet, “ at steamer’s option.” Sobelman & Co. thereupon wrote to the plaintiff…