Legal Opinion
Penn Central Company v. General Mills, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 25, 1971No. 19-1578PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
This action was brought in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota by Penn Central Company against General Mills, Inc., to recover freight charges under and pursuant to the Interstate Commerce Act. As a civil action arising under an act of Congress regulating commerce, jurisdiction is properly based on 28 U.S.C. § 1337. From a judgment for the plaintiff, defendant appeals. We affirm.
At various times between August 1, 1966 and the commencement of this action, General Mills shipped freight from Lancaster, Ohio in interstate commerce over the lines of…
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