Wheelock v. Walsh Fire Clay Products Co.

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

Appellee brought this action at law against appellants, receivers for the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company, to recover certain alleged overcharges on shipments of freight. The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the lower court.

From December, 1924, to July, 1927, plaintiff shipped certain ears of fire brick from Vandalia, Mo., over the lines of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company, as initial carrier, to East St. Louis, 111., where the shipments were turned over to connecting carriers which either completed the transportation themselves or in turn delivered…