Murray v. Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Iowa
This was an action by Murray against the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company to recover damages for alleged unreasonable rates charged for transportation of freight. Submitted on motion and demurrer to amended petition.
1Opinion of the Court
SHIRAS, District Judge.
In the amended petition filed in this cause it is averred that during the years 187H to 1887, inclnsive, the plaintiff was engaged at Relie 1 Maine, Iowa, in the business of buying and shipping to Chicago grain, cattle, and hogs, the same being shipped in car-load lots over the line of railway owned and operated by the defendant company; that, at the several limes when the shipments were made, the defendant company had posted at its stations, including that at Relie Hamo, priti 1 ed lists containing the tariff rates charged by the company for the transportation of…
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