Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Judson Freight Forwarding Co.

HARRISON, District Judge.

This is an action by the plaintiff carrier against the defendant shippers for alleged, undercharges on 105 separate shipments of household goods, and arises over the fact that each shipment was transported in two- forty-foot cars instead of one fifty-foot car.

The question for determination is whether the shippers should have been billed for two forty-foot cars on each shipment instead of one fifty-foot car. Originally, the shippers were billed on the theory that in each instance a fifty-foot car had been ordered and that the two forty-foot cars had been furnished at…