Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. v. Northern Pac. R.

WHEEEER, District Judge.

The Northern Pacific Railroad Company had á contract with the Northern Pacific Steamship Company for interchange of traffic between points in the United States and iVsiatic ports, by the terms of which the railroad company had the exclusive right to appoint agents in the United States, and the steamship company thereby authorized the railroad company “and its appointed agents to act as agents for” it, “and to issue bills of lading and passenger tickets, and to make and name rates on all traffic for tbe Asiatic points served by the steamships.” The receivers of the…