Legal Opinion
Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad Company v. Wisconsin Central Limited
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 21, 1998No. 97-3484PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This procedurally complicated lawsuit between two railroads began five years ago when BOCT filed a complaint in federal district court under the Interstate Commerce Act demanding that WCL, to which BOCT had rendered terminal services, pay it switching charges and railroad-car rental fees pursuant to a tariff for such services that BOCT had filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission. In its answer, WCL claimed both that BOCT’s claim was barred by an agreement between the parties covering the services BOCT had rendered (an interchange agreement) and that the rate in the…
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