Kindel v. Southern Railway Co.

This was an action to recover from the defendant railroad company, the difference between freights paid for the shipment of coal, and what the plaintiff alleged to be a reasonable charge for the service rendered.

The gist of the action is found in the following allegations of the complaint: -

“That since July 1, 1907, plaintiff has thus bought and had shipped to him at Denver, Colorado, from various towns in said ‘northern coal fields,’ to-wit: Louisville, Lafayette and Marshall (all being in the state of Colorado), for use in said business as aforesaid, various and sundry amounts of coal in…