United Mineral Products Co. v. Nebraska Railroads of Western Trunk Lines Committee

A shipper has complained of unjust discrimination in rail rates. The objection involves the relationship between scales of distance rates for single-line and joint-line hauls of a commodity from different points of origin to common destinations up> to 200 miles away.

The Nebraska State Railway Commission authorized joint-line rates for intrastate transportation of highway construction material described as a filler consisting of ground limestone or limestone dust with a minimum weight of 100,000 pounds per car in closed cars. The shipper has appealed.

In a former opinion, 177 Neb. 802, 131 N.…