United States v. Fisher Flouring Mills Co.

CUSHMAN, District Judge.

The complaint herein alleges that in 1920, at Seattle, a Fleet Corporation vessel was chartered by the Corporation to the defendants, Fisher Flouring Mills and the WhiteDulany Company, for the carriage of grain to Europe, at the rate of $20 per ton; that after the loading of tbe vessel a bill of lading was issued, covering the shipment, at the recited rate of $18 a ton; that the agent of the Fleet Corporation and these two defendants undertook to arbitrate the question of the proper freight rate; that the arbitrators found the proper rate to be $20 a ton, and found…