Robinson v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. The facts, which involve the validity of charges of common. carriers on coal shipments and whether illegal discrimination existed, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
In February, March and May, 1903, Robinson, the plaintiff in error, shipped eleven carloads of coal from Fairmont, West Virginia, to points in other States, over the railroad of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, the defendant in error, and paid the rate thereon which was prescribed in a schedule published and filed conformably to the act to regulate interstate commerce and then in full force. By this schedule the rate was fifty cents ■ more per ton when the coál was loaded into the car from wagons than when the loading was from a tipple. Robinson’s shipments came under the higher rate,…
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