Franklin v. Philadelphia & R. Ry. Co.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
At Law. Action by Henry G. Franklin and others against the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company. Answer to rule to plead.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, District Judge.
This is an action in trespass, in which the plaintiffs seek to recover from the defendant the excess of freight charges alleged to have been paid by the plaintiffs to the defendant upon ice shipped from Gouldsboro, Pa., and other points taking the same rate over various connecting interstate carriers to Philadelphia, Pa., during the period from April 18, 1907, to August 20, 1909. The rate charged by the defendant was $1.40 per ton. The rates in question were held to he unreasonable by the Interstate Commerce Commission on November 14, 1910, in a proceeding brought by…
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- Robinson v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. United States Ex Rel. Pitcairn Coal Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1910
- Southern Railway Co. v. TiftSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Morrisdale Coal Co. v. Pennsylvania R. Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1910
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