Gerber v. Wabash Railroad

The Southern Pacific Railway Com- . pany owns and operates. a railroad from Santa Paula, *146California, to Ogden, Utah. By a traffic arrangement with connecting carriers, it named and guaranteed through rates of freight to the city of St. Louis, Missouri, but was only to be held responsible for such shipments to the end of its own line. In compliance with what is known as the “Interstate Commerce Law,” it printed and posted schedules of through freight rates, which showed that the minimum weight of a car load of oranges not on ice was twenty thousand pounds, and on ice twenty-four thousand…