Grand Trunk Western R. Co. v. Mount Clemens Sugar Co.

Plaintiff liad judgment for car demurrage. Defendant was denied recovery for money it had paid plaintiff under engine hire agreements, with claim of damage doubled under 2 Comp. Laws 1929, § 11035.

For many years defendant has operated a sugar beet factory near Mount Clemens. Its plant is. about two miles from the main line of plaintiff’s railroad and is reached by a single spur track, from which run a number of stub tracks to defendant’s loading and unloading docks and bins.

The sugar manufacturing “campaign” lasts about three months from October 1st. During the campaign some 1,200 to 1,500…