Standard Rice Co. v. Southern Pac. Co.

McCORD, Circuit Judge.

Southern Pacific Company, doing business as Southern Pacific Steamship Lines, plaintiff, sued Standard Rice Company, Inc., defendant, to recover alleged undercharges upon 72 shipments of rice, moving from the defendant’s warehouse and mill, at Houston, Texas, to various north Atlantic ports. The plaintiff collected and the defendant paid a rate of 26 cents per hundred pounds of rice, under the provisions of Item 7070-A of Supplement No. 3 of Tariff 37-A, King’s Atlantic-Gulf Coast-wise Steamship Freight Bureau Tariff.

Defendant denied that undercharges were outstanding…