Farmers Union Livestock Commission v. Union Pacific Railroad

This is an action at law brought by certain live stock commission firms in Omaha, or their attorneys in fact, *691against all of the intrastate railroad carriers of live stock serving the stockyards at that point, to enforce the payment of reparations ordered by the Nebraska state railway commission based on the failure of the line haul or trunk railroads to absorb switching charges of the Union Stock Yards Company, or its successor, the South Omaha Terminal Railway Company, for switching car-loads of live stock from the terminals of the trunk lines to and from the loading and unloading chutes of…