Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Virginia Manufacturing Co.

This action of assumpsit was brought by the plain*6tiff in error to recover of the defendant in error $548.80, freight charges, claimed to be due for several interstate shipments of goods, made at the instance and request of the defendant in error.

The amount sued for was alleged to be the difference between the rate of twenty-one cents per hundred pounds, charged by the local agent, which was paid by the shipper, and forty-four cents per hundred pounds, the rate fixed by the plaintiff company, on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission at the time the shipments were made, and posted…