Blair v. Sioux City & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal froyn 'Pottawattamie'-.District .Court.-. — HoN. N. W. ' - " ' : ' ■ Macy, Judge. : , ‘ Action to recover alleged unreasonable, extortionate, aid illegal freight charges on hay shipped by plaintiffs over defendants’ line's of road from Whiting to Council Bluffs. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
Between- January 1, 1889, and the bringing of these suits, in 1893, plaintiffs shipped many cars *371of baled bay from Whiting and Blencoe, Iowa., stations on the line of the Chicago & Northwestern [Railway. The original petitions alleged that defendants charged, demanded and received of plaintiff for the said shipments the sum of two local tariffs of said lines from Whiting (or Blencoe) to [Missouri Valley, and from Missouri Valley to Council Bluffs; that at and about the time said shipments 1 of baled hay were- made. .*. .*. .the defendant corporations were charging on shipments of baled hay…
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- Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Sloane v. Southern California Railway Co.California Supreme Court · 1896
- Parsons v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Cook & Wheeler v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1890
- Guyer v. Minnesota Thresher Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1896
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