Seaboard Air-Line Railway Co. v. Lumberman's Co.

This case was originally a suit instituted in the municipal court of Atlanta against the Seaboard Air-Line Railway Company by the Lumberman’s Company. The original petition is based upon section 2770 of the Civil Code of 1910. It is alleged in substance that the plaintiff had shipped to Atlanta, Georgia, from Dacula, Georgia, over the railway of the defendant, certain carloads of lumber, and for said shipments the plaintiff had been charged as freight $185.81 in excess of the amount which should legally have been exacted under the tariff and rate prescribed by the Georgia Public Service…