Hygrade Food Products Corp. v. Chicago, M., St. P. & P. R.

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves the determination of the legal freight rates applicable to shipments of hogs from points in South Dakota to Buffalo, N. Y. On December 4, 1924, the plaintiff's assignor, Allied Packers, Inc., shipped a single deck carload of hogs from Mitchell, S. D. The St. Paul road carried it to Chicago, where it was switched by the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad to the tracks of the Nickel Plate, which carried it on to Buffalo. There were also four shipments from Platte, S. D. to Buffalo during April and May, 1925, but, since these present the same question of law as…