Legal Opinion
Berthold-Jennings Lumber Co. v. St. Louis, I. M. & S. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 7, 1935No. 9945PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARDNER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree entered after hearing on certain exceptions to a report of a special master, which denied preferential payment to certain claims of appellants for overcharges made by a carrier in intrastate commerce, but which allowed them as general claims. The issues require a somewhat extended statement of the history of the litigation and the facts in connection with which the claim's of appellants arose.
In 1905 (Laws 1905, p. 102), the Legislature of Missouri passed the so-called '‘Maximum Freight Acts,” which were amended in 1907 (Laws 1907, p.…
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