Legal Opinion
Brantley Co. v. Ocean Steamship Co.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided March 23, 1909No. 1290PublishedCited by 3 opinions
Action for freight overcharges, from city court of Savannah— , Judge Freeman. May 4, 1908.
1Opinion of the CourtPowell, J.
The A. P. Brantley Company, of Blaekshear, were engaged, during .the years 1904 and 1905, in shipping cotton from interior points in the State .of Georgia by rail to Savannah, and thence by Ocean Steamship -Company to New York and to Paw-tucket, Rhode Island. It is .alleged, in the petition, that the rate charged-by the Ocean-Steamship Company to its patrons at Savannah for-shipping cotton from Savannah to New York is 23 cents per hundredweight, and that, in the shipments referred to in the ¡present .action, .'it .charged .and collected from the plaintiffs certain *845stated, amounts in excess of…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Abilene Cotton Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Cincinnati, N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati. N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Southern Pacific Co. v. CrenshawCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1909
- Georgia Railroad v. CreetyCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1909
- United States ex rel. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Seaboard Ry. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Alabama · 1897
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