Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. Brown

Stripped of all obviously immaterial considerations, this appeal involves only the question of'whether or not an amount correctly due appellant by appellee for demurrage on a car engaged in interstate commerce could be lawfully reduced — and a lesser amount accepted in payment thereof — by one of appellant’s duly authorized agents, in this case its attorney.

Well, it could not, and there’s no need for any extended- discussion by us. The authorities are so numerous that citation would seem to be unnecessary. As said by Mr. Justice Hughes, for the Supreme Court of the United States, in the ease…