Davis v. Hampton Stave Co.

This suit was instituted by James C. Davis, Director General of Railroads, as agent, against the Hampton Stave Company, to recover an undercharge growing out of the alleged failure of the stave company to ship out over the lines of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company the required percentage of finished products for the amount of rough material which had been shipped into the plant of the stave company over the lines of said railroad company, under the terms of a so-called “rough material” contract.

The complaint alleged that, on the 20th day of May, 1920, the stave company…