Legal Opinion
Turner, Dennis & Lowry Lumber Co. v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 24, 1926No. 271PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brandéis
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Turner, Dennis & Lowry Lumber Company brought this action against the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company in the federal court for western Missouri to recover $40 alleged to have been illegally exacted in December, 1921. That sum was collected by the carrier, in accordance with a demurrage tariff duly filed, as a so-called penalty at the rate of $10 a day for the detention of a car containing lumber shipped interstate over thedefendant’s railroad to the plaintiff at Aberdeen, South Dakota, and there held at its request for…
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