International-Great Northern R. v. Singer Iron & Steel Co.

GRAVES, Justice.

The appellant, as plaintiff, sued the ap-pellee, as defendant, below for demurrage on in-coming cars of scrap iron shipped over the former’s lines to the latter at the Port of Houston, and which had been held by the railroad while awaiting instructions from the steel company or which had not been unloaded by the latter within the allowed free time; the only question involved there or here is, which one of two separate demurrage-tariffs, that is, the local one known as American Railway Association Freight Tariff, T. B. Jones, agent, the other, which is applicable only to export…