Texas & N. O. R. Co. v. W. A. Kelso Building Material Co.

CODY, Justice.

This was a consolidated suit by appellee, a shipper, to recover from appellants, Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company and the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company, overcharges alleged to have been collected by them respectively on numerous carload shipments of sand, transported from Eagle Lake to Galveston, Texas. Each such shipment was consigned and delivered to appellee at one of its two plants located, for consignment purposes, on the tracks of the Galveston Wharves, a switching or terminal railroad line at Galveston. Each such shipment on which overcharges were claimed…