Louisville & N. R. v. Empire State Chemical Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Georgia
At.Law. Action by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company and Atlantic. Coast Line Railroad Company against the Empire State Chemical Company. On demurrer to defendant’s answer. Overruled in pari and sustained in part.
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAN, District Judge.
This case is now being heard on a demurrer to the defendant’s answer.
The suit is brought by the plaintiffs against the defendant to recover certain demurrage charges amounting to $2,083 on several car loads of freight delivered on the defendant’s spur tracks at its manufacturing plant.
The answer sets up, as amended: That the defendants entered into a contract with the plaintiffs which had in view the establishment, by the defendant company, of a plant on the line of the Georgia Railroad, near Athens, Ga., plaintiffs to build, maintain, and operate spur tracks, from the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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