Southern Pacific Co. v. Seaboard Mills

These are appeals by plaintiff in four separate actions from orders and judgments of dismissal made on motion pursuant to section 583, Code of Civil Procedure, and from an order denying a motion to vacate the judgments. The record in each is limited to the clerk’s transcript. Each of the actions is based on a claim by appellant for money allegedly refunded in error to respondents. The controversies appear to have arisen as a result of the application to certain goods shipped by respondents over the rail lines of plaintiff of tariff classifications different from those which had been…