Froeber-Norfleet, Inc. v. Southern Ry. Co.

UNDERWOOD, District Judge.

This is an action to enforce reparation awards of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The ruling grows out of three separate proceedings before the Commission —Dockets 20928, 22645, and 22398. All three assailed rates on carload shipments of bananas from Charleston, S. C., as unreasonable and in violation of section 1 of the Interstate Commerce Act (49 USCA § 1).

Complaint in Docket 20928 was filed April 13, 1928, in Docket 22645 August 7, 1929, and in Docket 22398 June 11, 1929, and the sole issue presented before the Commission was one of reparation and did not…