Eagle Cotton Oil Co. v. Southern Ry. Co.

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an action by appellant on an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission awarding reparation on account of excessive freight rates collected by the appellee railroad carriers for. the transportation of coal from mines in Alabama to Meridian, Miss. The' published rate of $2.03 per ton was held by the Commission, in a proceeding begun before it by appellant in 1925, to have been excessive to the extent that it exceeded $1.85 per ton from certain mines and $1.95 from other mines, and these lower rates were prescribed as reasonable for the future. Appellant was'…