Southern Pac. Co. v. Defense Supplies Corporation

GOODMAN, District Judge.

During the years 1942 and 1943, defendant Defense Supplies Corporation shipped to itself from Seatte, Wash., to Los An-geles, Cal., via the railroads of plaintiff and other participating carriers and upon government bills-of-lading, certain tank cars of motor benzol. Defendant refused to pay plaintiff, as the delivering carrier, for such transportation at the commercial rates established under tariffs filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Instead it paid a lower rate, arrived at by deducting from the tariff rate certain so-called land grant allowances reserved…