Chicago, R. I. P. Ry. Co. v. Dodson & Williams
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from, the United States Court for the Southern District of the Indian Ten-itory; J. T. Dickerson, Judge. Action by Dodson & Williams, partners, against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. Co. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant brings error. On ■the 5th day of March, 1904, Dodson & Williams commenced their action in the Hnited States Court for the Southern District of the Indian Territory at Ryan, against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company.
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Error from, the United States Court for the Southern District of the Indian Ten-itory; J. T. Dickerson, Judge. Action by Dodson & Williams, partners, against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. Co. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant brings error. On ■the 5th day of March, 1904, Dodson & Williams commenced their action in the Hnited States Court for the Southern District of the Indian Territory at Ryan, against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company. Their complaint alleged that the plaintiffs were a partnership and that the defendant was a corporation, and that on the 8th…
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, J.
(after stating the facts as above). The question involved here is the construction of the tariff sheet rate of the defendant as to the rates for “cotton uncompressed, any quantity,” and “cotton compressed, any quantity”; the former being 75 cents and the latter 65 cents per hundred pounds between the points named. The cotton having been delivered by the shipper to the carrier in an “uncompressed” state, with the understanding that it would be compressed and transported by the carrier in a “compressed” condition to its ultimate place of consignment, and the tariff sheet not covering such a…
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