St. L., S. F. T. Ry. v. R. O. C.

Appellee, plaintiff in the court below, in its petition alleges that from September, 1906, to April, 1907, appellant and its connecting lines had in effect a tariff, which permitted concentration of baled cotton originating in the Indian Territory, at Sherman, Texas, and obligating itself to refund or pay to the shipper, upon reshipment of the cotton, the amount that had been paid for the shipment thereof from the Indian Territory points to Sherman, this arrangement being what is commonly called "concentration" or "compress privileges;" that plaintiff and its assignor, under this tariff,…