North American Co. v. St. Louis &. S. F. R.
District Court, E.D. Missouri
In Equity. Suits by the North American Company and by the Rail Joint Compány against the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company, consolidated. In the matter of interventions of. E. B. Spiller and of E. B. Spiller and others against the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company, purchaser at foreclosure sale.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
Between August 16, 1906, and November 17, 1908, the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company collected of certain shippers of cattle, whose claims are held by the in-terveners, legally established freight rates, which on April 14, 1908, the Interstate Commerce Commission found to be unreasonable and unjust to the extent of about 3 cents per 100 pounds. That Commission then held reasonable rates to be those in force prior to 1903, and by its order, made in July, 1908, the earlier rates were put in force November 17, 1908. The Commission reserved all questions of…
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