Legal Opinion
Van Patten v. Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Iowa
Decided June 29, 1897PublishedCited by 12 opinions
Submitted on Demurrer to Answer.
1Opinion of the Court
SHIRAS, District Judge.
In the first count of the petition filed in this case the plaintiff avers, in substance, that in the year 1893 he shipped over the line of railway owned and operated by the defendant railway company, between the town of Manning, Iowa, and the city of Chicago, Ill., certain car loads of grain for which the railway charged a rate per 100 pounds, it being then averred:
“That said rate so charged was an unjust, unreasonable, and extortionate charge for such service, and subjected this plaintiff and the town of Manning *546to an undue, unjust, and unreasonable prejudice,…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Church of the Holy Trinity v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Lau Ow Bew v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Platt v. Union Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Bernier v. BernierSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Ogle v. LeeSupreme Court of the United States · 1804
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3Cited by12 opinions
- St. Paul Book & Stationery Co. v. St. Paul Gaslight Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1915
- Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. SpillerCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1917
- State v. Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1950
- Arnold v. Louisville and Nashville Railroad CompanyDistrict Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1960
- United States v. Vacuum Oil Co.District Court, W.D. New York · 1907
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