Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Gilliam

The appellant railway, company, plaintiff in the court below, sued appellees to recover $237 as an undercharge on an interstate shipment of freight, together with $7.11 war tax thereon, and with interest from September 8, 1920. The cause was tried before the court without a jury upon an agreed statement of facts, the salient features of which will be here stated. The trial resulted in a judgment for the defendants, from which the plaintiff railway company has prosecuted this appeal.

The defendants had purchased through a brokerage firm a carload of shorts at a stipulated price of $69 per ton,…