Oklahoma Belt R. Co. v. Schaff

I am compelled to dissent for the following reasons:

The law is that an interstate common carrier, when acting as a common carrier, is not permitted, through contract or otherwise, to depart from its lawfully established tariffs. L. & N. R. Co. v. Maxwell, 237 U. S. 94, 35 Sup. Ct. 494, 59 L. Ed. 853,_ L. R. A. 1915E, 665, and citations therein. This rule is so strictly interpreted that the carrier cannot, as a common carrier, transport even its own property. As where a railway owning mines and selling coal undertook to ¿transport that coal and deliver it to a purchaser at less than the cost…