Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Aiken

In this suit by a railroad company to recover for an alleged undercharge of freight on an interstate shipment of goods, of which the defendant was both consignor and consignee, the undisputed testimony, together with the documentary evidence, having established conclusively and as a matter of law that the correct amount of the freight charges, as fixed by the effective tariffs of file with the interstate-commerce commission, was $203.43 in excess of the amount set forth in the bill of lading and prepaid by the shipper, the verdict in favor of the defendant shipper was contrary to the evidence…