Allen v. San Francisco Wholesale Dairy Produce Exchange

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment against him in an action to recover from the defendant the sum of $1,218 for a transcript of the official stenographic report of proceedings before the Interstate Commerce Commission on the perishable freight investigation.

The plaintiff is the official reporter of the Interstate Commerce Commission and is engaged in the business of reporting and selling transcripts of the reports of said commission to persons, interested therein, at prices fixed by said commission for such services. On June 20, 1919, plaintiff sent to defendant a circular…