McFadden v. Alabama Great Southern R.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; J. Whitaker Thompson, Judge. Action by the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company against George H. McFadden and others, formerly copartners trading as George McFadden & Bros. Judgment for plaintiff (232 Fed. 1000), and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.
The main question in this case is whether the aggregate of two rates, one intrastate for a part of a given transportation and the other interstate for the rest of it, is the legal rate for interstate shipments, when there is at the same time a duly established interstate through rate for the same transportation. The question had its rise doubtless in the fact that the two first named rates when combined were less in amount than the one through rate.
A full statement of the case appears in the opinion of the District Court. 232 Fed. 1000. The pertinent facts briefly…
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