Platte Sand & Gravel Co. v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

This appeal is from an order entered by the state railway commission, directing defendant to refund to plaintiff certain alleged overcharges for freight on 22 car lots of gravel, shipped by plaintiff from its gravel pit in Saunders county to DeBolt Place in Douglas county, over defendant’s line of railway to Omaha and thence over the Chicago & Northwestern railway to DeBolt Place. Defendant appeals.

The rate exacted by defendant was 5i/2 cents per cwt. Defendant contends that this rate was lawfully established by the railway commission as a joint-haul rate for gravel over the two lines of…