Atlantic Coast Line R. v. Trammell

KING, Circuit Judge.

When the fertilizer factory now operated by the Blackshear Manufacturing Company was about to be built á number of years ago, a rate on bulk acid phosphate and fertilizer material, including kainit and pyrites, of 60 cents per ton, was agreed to and put in by the Savannah, Florida & Western Railway Company over its line from Savannah, Ga., to Blackshear, Ga., a distance of 87 miles. This railway became thereafter a part of the Atlantic Coast Line, and this rate, which had been adopted by orders of the Georgia Railroad Commission, the former name of the Georgia Public…