National Dock & Storage Warehouse Co. v. Boston & Maine Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed on December 1,1915, by the National Dock and Storage Warehouse Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth and having its usual place of business in Boston, for a writ of mandamus addressed to the Boston and Maine Railroad, commanding it to desist from violating an order or orders of the public service commission made under St. 1913, c. 784, § 22, by the establishment of rates unjustly discriminatory "as to the petitioner.
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Petition, filed on December 1,1915, by the National Dock and Storage Warehouse Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth and having its usual place of business in Boston, for a writ of mandamus addressed to the Boston and Maine Railroad, commanding it to desist from violating an order or orders of the public service commission made under St. 1913, c. 784, § 22, by the establishment of rates unjustly discriminatory "as to the petitioner. The case was heard by Pierce, J., who reserved it upon the pleadings and his findings of fact for determination by the full court.…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant to comply with orders of the public service commission, made upon a petition brought by the present petitioner against the present respondent alleging that discriminatory rates were charged by it against the petitioner. Summarily stated, that contention was based upon absorption by the respondent of transfer charges from the Commonwealth pier, to which the tracks of the respondent do not run, made to it by the *199New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company and the Union Freight Railroad, in order to transport freight…
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