Cummings Sand & Gravel Co. v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cerro Gordo District Court. — M. F. Edwards, Judge. Action in equity for a mandatory injunction requiring defendant to accept in payment for services rendered in handling freight for the plaintiff, a sum less than the published tariff rate for long distance haul, on the theory that the services were in the nature of switching service; or if not, that defendant had so construed the service, in that it hauled for others in a like situation and charged for so doing…
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Appeal from Cerro Gordo District Court. — M. F. Edwards, Judge. Action in equity for a mandatory injunction requiring defendant to accept in payment for services rendered in handling freight for the plaintiff, a sum less than the published tariff rate for long distance haul, on the theory that the services were in the nature of switching service; or if not, that defendant had so construed the service, in that it hauled for others in a like situation and charged for so doing as for a switching service.
1Opinion of the CourtGaynor, J.
1. Carriers : control and regulation: “switching” . and “transportation” service contrasted. The defendant is a railroad company, operating a line of road north, and south through Mason City. East of defendant’s line, and nearly parallel, runs a line of road owned and operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, hereafter called the Milwaukee. On the line of the last named company, and connected with it by a spur track, plaintiff owned and is operating a gravel pit. The junction of the Milwaukee and the defendant company’s line is at a point approximately’' two miles south…
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