Ferguson-Steere Motor Company v. United States

The plaintiff is a motor carrier of petroleum products from Texas to New Mexico. One of its competitors is a railroad, and the railroad rate on the same sort of freight was lower than the plaintiff’s rate. It exercised its right to initiate its own rate, and in order to meet the rate that had been recently established by the railroad it reduced its own rate to the same figure that was charged by the railroad.

This right to adjust its rate to meet competition is within the zone of reasonableness, and resulted in no undue prej*594udice, or, preference, or, discrimination. This exact point was…